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Katie spoke with Sylvia, who couldn't attend her father-in-law's funeral after border restrictions for Territorians changed last minute · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Joining me on the line right now is well, somebody
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  Speaker 1: I know very well, a friend of mine, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't know exactly what the situation is. Sylvia joins me
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  Speaker 1: right now. Good morning, Sylvia, Good morning Katie, Sylvia.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on? I understand you're out at Howard Springs
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  Speaker 2: at the moment, is that right?
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  Speaker 3: That's right. Basically, we went to Adelaide to go to
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  Speaker 3: my father in law's funeral. We couldn't go in because
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  Speaker 3: they obviously went into lockdown halfway through our flight. They
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  Speaker 3: threw us into a hotel for one night, which is
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  Speaker 3: an isolation hotel. We come back to Darwin, and now
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  Speaker 3: Darwin has thrown us into how It Springs for three days.
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  Speaker 2: Why.
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  Speaker 3: The first thing about this is my husband's father is
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  Speaker 3: getting buried today at midday, and we can't even be
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  Speaker 3: at home with his son mourning the loss and toasting
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  Speaker 3: his life because we're stuck here in separate rooms, so
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  Speaker 3: it can't even be in the same room together. And basically, now, well,
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  Speaker 3: we don't even have the option for isolation at home
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  Speaker 3: because they only offered that in the city as a
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  Speaker 3: trial period, and because we live rural, we don't have
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  Speaker 3: that option. So I think the other government needs to
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  Speaker 3: get their act together and have some compassion in the
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  Speaker 3: way that they deal with people, because this is just ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Sylvia. Just let me make this really clear in my
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  Speaker 1: head and also for our listeners. So essentially, you and
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  Speaker 1: your partner, you and your husband went away to attend
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  Speaker 1: your father in law's funeral. You got to South Australia,
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  Speaker 1: but you were told basically that you wouldn't be able
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  Speaker 1: to go or that that wasn't going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to happen, So they put you into a hotel quarantine
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  Speaker 1: in South Australia and you came back.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we're both double vaccinated. We were one night in isolation.
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  Speaker 3: We got a negative test on that. But the NT
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  Speaker 3: government aren't even recognizing that they're treating us like we
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  Speaker 3: being fourteen days in isolation and they're treating us as
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  Speaker 3: day one here, so we won't be able to here
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  Speaker 3: until Sunday or Monday. This is bizarre, I realize that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but also bloody heartbreaking for you guys, and that
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  Speaker 1: you've not been able to go to the funeral and
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  Speaker 1: now your son's at home and you're not actually able to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to pay your respects and comfort each other
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  Speaker 1: as as you'd hope.
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  Speaker 3: To exactly it is being streamed. We're lucky enough we
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  Speaker 3: there's that, but it's a bit hard when Brian can't
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  Speaker 3: give your son Logan a hug and tell them everything's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Sylvia, I look, this is quite unbelievable, given the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you didn't actually like you've gone straight into isolation
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  Speaker 1: and then you've come straight back. So essentially, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and you've come from the Northern Territory, you're double vaccinated.
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  Speaker 1: I can't understand why they've actually got you in Howard
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  Speaker 1: Springs right now.
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  Speaker 3: No, we couldn't understand it either. We expected when we
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  Speaker 3: got off the plane that we just go on our
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  Speaker 3: merry ways go home, and you know, sadly we're mister funeral,
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  Speaker 3: but at least we'd have each other and our family
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  Speaker 3: around us.
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  Speaker 1: And then so you've been taken out there to Howard Springs,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have the ability to be able to home
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  Speaker 1: quarantine because at this point in time, people in the
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  Speaker 1: rural area aren't able to even if you live on
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  Speaker 1: a big block for the four G reason and various
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  Speaker 1: other reasons that have been given to us.
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  Speaker 2: But look, Sylvia. I don't know how much it will.
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  Speaker 1: Help by us by us sort of raising it, but
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  Speaker 1: what I can say is that we'd be happy to
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  Speaker 1: pass your details on to the Health Minister's office and
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  Speaker 1: see if there is some way that this can be
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  Speaker 1: looked into, because it seems absolutely bizarre that you're out
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  Speaker 1: there at Howard Springs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that, Katie. I don't expect anything will happen.
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  Speaker 3: It'll just be another red tape bonanza for the anti
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  Speaker 3: government because really, at the end of the day, we're
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  Speaker 3: just numbers. Yeah, not people were numbers, but.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I reckon people are starting to really think
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  Speaker 1: to themselves, so, well, hang on a second, I've been
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  Speaker 1: double vaccinated.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm trying to do the right thing here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, why is it? Why am I being treated
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  Speaker 2: like this?
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  Speaker 3: Exactly? It makes you wonder why you bother even getting vaccinated.
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  Speaker 3: It's meant to give us our freedom, that's what they're
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  Speaker 3: telling us. I'm hearing it and seeing it on television.
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  Speaker 3: They're telling us, get vaccinated so you've got the freedom
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  Speaker 3: to travel. Guess what, I just lost all my freedom
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  Speaker 3: for a four day period. I'm feeling our cannibal elected
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  Speaker 3: with a bowler at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Sylvia, please keep us in the loop as to
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  Speaker 1: how things go. Our love to you and your family
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  Speaker 1: under what is a really difficult situation.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I certainly will, Katie, thank you very much taking
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  Speaker 3: the time. And I really hope no one else in
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  Speaker 3: the territory has to go through this, and that's the
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  Speaker 3: reason I've contact you guys, because I don't want anyone
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  Speaker 3: else to have to go through this sort of heartbreak.
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  Speaker 1: No, that is if absent aolutely fair enough Sylvia, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: We will leave it there because we've got a few
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  Speaker 1: other callers on the line.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks so much for having a chat with us this morning.