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Katie spoke with Member for Katherine Jo Hersey about how Katherine is coping during the lockdown · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: On the line right now.
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  Speaker 2: We promised her a little earlier this morning, and I
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  Speaker 2: do apologize that we're running so late. It's the CLP's
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  Speaker 2: member for Catherine, Joe Hersey. Good morning to you, Joe.
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  Speaker 1: On equal Joe.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry we didn't get you on earlier. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not too sure what had happened, but I do apologize
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  Speaker 2: and I appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 1: Now. That's okay, Katie, No worries.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Joe busy, Yeah, tell us how things are going
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  Speaker 2: for you guys in Catherine at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: So first of all, I'd just like to let everyone
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  Speaker 1: know that all of the three testing stations are open today.
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  Speaker 1: The board, the electronic boards around Catherine say two testing stations,
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  Speaker 1: but all three are open today, which is the High School,
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  Speaker 1: of the hospital, Giles Street and Catherine East, so they're
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  Speaker 1: all open to testing stations. And obviously the vaccination hub
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  Speaker 1: is open. But yesterday, after we heard the news that
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  Speaker 1: we were definitely still in lockdown, that has left businesses
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  Speaker 1: feeling a little flat and anxious about what the future holds.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we've now what are we now eleven days
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  Speaker 1: into being in lockdown. It certainly feels like longer than
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  Speaker 1: eleven days, I can assure you. But you know, people
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  Speaker 1: in people in business would like to get back to business.
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  Speaker 1: But obviously we need the wastewater testing to be showing negative,
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  Speaker 1: and we need everyone to be getting tested, and we
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  Speaker 1: need you know, the cases to you know, not be
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  Speaker 1: going up.
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  Speaker 3: So I wait in.
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  Speaker 1: Today to see what the future brings for us. You go, Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry going on before about Bingjari and rock Holes, there
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  Speaker 1: have been I would have had two hundred plus emails
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  Speaker 1: plus numerous people sharing absolute rubbish on Facebook that is absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: categorically not true of what is happening at Binjari and
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  Speaker 1: Rock Hole. I have spoken to police and people that
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  Speaker 1: work in these areas, and everyone is being well looked after.
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  Speaker 1: The only reason people are leaving is if they are unwell,
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  Speaker 1: they need to go and isolate in an area that
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  Speaker 1: is more suitable. And everyone is being looked after extremely
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  Speaker 1: well by authorities and the you know, like the very
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  Speaker 1: Catholic Hair Salvation Army, those kind of places town. They
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  Speaker 1: are doing a very good job and everyone's working extremely
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  Speaker 1: hard and working together.
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  Speaker 2: And Joe, we did just catch up a little earlier
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  Speaker 2: this morning with the Jarwin Association and John bursh I
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  Speaker 2: had told us said it was completely untrue as well
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  Speaker 2: that they are in contact every single day with family
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  Speaker 2: members and people on the ground in Binjari and also
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  Speaker 2: in rock Hole. He actually said that they're quite upset
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  Speaker 2: by the false claims that are being made on social
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  Speaker 2: media and in some places they're getting mad about it.
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  Speaker 2: We also know that Whirley Whirley, the health service there,
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  Speaker 2: has issued a statement on their Facebook page saying that
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  Speaker 2: the traditional owners. They've put a statement up there from
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  Speaker 2: the Traditional Owners saying that people are very hurt by
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  Speaker 2: the untrue comments being made in the media and social
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  Speaker 2: media about their situation, and that support personnel and organizations
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  Speaker 2: are providing support to Binjari and rock Hole. Jo, are
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  Speaker 2: you quite angry that people who aren't even in Catherine
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  Speaker 2: or in either of those remote communities are making this
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  Speaker 2: garbage up.
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  Speaker 1: Not only are they not in Katherine, Katie or in
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  Speaker 1: the territory, some of them are from overseas. I actually
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  Speaker 1: had a friend of mine message me from overseas about
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  Speaker 1: what is going on in Catherine. It is absolutely not
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  Speaker 1: true and in the community are quite set up with
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  Speaker 1: this absolute garbage that people are peddling of the lives
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  Speaker 1: because these people are being very well looked after. We're
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  Speaker 1: all being looked after to the best of you know,
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  Speaker 1: the ability of the authorities, and you know we all
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  Speaker 1: need to look after ourselves as well. But it is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely not true. And yeah, people are people are fed
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  Speaker 1: up with it, you know. And I'm applaud really for
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  Speaker 1: putting that post up on their Facebook page. I did
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  Speaker 1: share that, and I've said to you know, other people
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  Speaker 1: that I know down south, feel feel free to share
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  Speaker 1: that far and wide. And I was talking to just
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  Speaker 1: In the Price yesterday and she had gone up and
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  Speaker 1: you know, she she'd spoken about it as well. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, if as many people get on and share
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  Speaker 1: the truth, you know, there's always an element in society
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  Speaker 1: that will want to peddle lives and rubbish, and you
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  Speaker 1: know it's we just need to let them know that
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  Speaker 1: that's not true. And we're doing quite well under the
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  Speaker 1: circumstances that we're hearing Katherine, and that you know, we
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  Speaker 1: don't need any of that to make people feel any
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  Speaker 1: more anxious than they already are.
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  Speaker 2: Joe, before I let you go, we know that businesses
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  Speaker 2: are certainly doing it tough for me being lockdown now
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  Speaker 2: for quite some time. The Chief Minister had said yesterday
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  Speaker 2: in that press conference that the reality was that there
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  Speaker 2: will probably be either a lockdown or a lockout up
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  Speaker 2: until December four. Business is being supported.
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  Speaker 3: So the businesses are being supported by the financial assistance
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  Speaker 3: from the government, but it doesn't really from what I'm hearing,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't really cover the losses that business.
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  Speaker 1: You know, have already endured. And the other thing with
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  Speaker 1: the payments to the staff of businesses is that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: cater for the younger worker that like, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: young school leader that's working at maccas and doing you know,
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  Speaker 1: twenty hours a week or something like that. There's nothing
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  Speaker 1: for that younger crowd to get any assistance either for
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  Speaker 1: the loss of them because obviously yesterday we learned that
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  Speaker 1: on the Caappy day here in Catherine, which was a
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  Speaker 1: very busy day, there was staff there. So now they
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  Speaker 1: are being tested and isolating. So therefore, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you had twenty hours a week, as some people some
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  Speaker 1: of these juniors do have, then now they have nothing
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  Speaker 1: and are less to isolate at home.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, I do think that there needs to be
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  Speaker 2: some support for them. And yeah, look I really hope
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  Speaker 2: that there is some support provider, because it must be
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  Speaker 2: difficult for them, particularly when you're talking about those casual
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  Speaker 2: workers or those workers that aren't currently eligible for anything.
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  Speaker 2: Do it makes it tough, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: It makes it really tough for business to carry on
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  Speaker 1: when those casual workers, you know, are in isolation and
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  Speaker 1: can't come in.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to have to leave it there because
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  Speaker 2: we've got the A on the other line. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to catch up with them as well. I really appreciate
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  Speaker 2: your time and thanks for all the help that you've
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  Speaker 2: given us over the last couple of weeks as well
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  Speaker 2: throughout the situation that Catherine is in. All the best
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  Speaker 2: to everybody in Catherine, no worries.
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  Speaker 1: Katie, thank you, thank you. I'll keep you updated.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate it.