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Luke Gosling has won the seat of Solomon in the Federal election by a massive margin...what will he do with his historic third term? · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: But let's get into our first interview, because we know
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  Speaker 1: that Luke Gosling well smashed his opponents in the seat
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  Speaker 1: of Solomon to take the seat for a third term.
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  Speaker 1: The Australian Electoral Commission on Sunday tallied well that mister
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  Speaker 1: Gosling had received fifty nine point four percent of the
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  Speaker 1: two party preferred vote in a seat which was considered
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  Speaker 1: to be a swinging seat. Now it is the first
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  Speaker 1: time that Luke Gosling's going to be in government since
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  Speaker 1: becoming that member in twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: And Luke joins me on the show right now. Good
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  Speaker 2: morning to you, Luke Cadie. Congratulations. How are you feeling?
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  Speaker 3: Oh bit fatigued, No, it's all good. Yeah, really happy.
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  Speaker 3: I was just watching some of the footage of Elbow,
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  Speaker 3: Richard Miles, Pennywong, Jim Chalmers and Katie Galler being sworn
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  Speaker 3: in by the Governor General, which is awesome because they
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  Speaker 3: can get off to the Quad meeting, which is a
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  Speaker 3: meeting of the leaders of the US, India, Japan and
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  Speaker 3: US which is really important meetings. So happy days.
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  Speaker 2: Look what do you reckon?
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  Speaker 1: That's the Saturday Night wins for Win means for the
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  Speaker 1: people of the Northern Territory and indeed people of Solomon.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's a great opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: I have been working for two terms in opposition to
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  Speaker 3: try and keep the Government of the day to account
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  Speaker 3: for their promises. Haven't always been successful in doing that,
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  Speaker 3: but I've really been just embedded in the community in
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  Speaker 3: a way where I have a good understanding about what
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  Speaker 3: we need to make the territory an even better place
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  Speaker 3: to live in Darwen and Palmerston to be respected around
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  Speaker 3: the country as the capital of the North. We've been
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  Speaker 3: successful in getting support from Federal Abor for some great commitments.
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  Speaker 3: So now it's delivery time. The good thing for the
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  Speaker 3: people of Darwen and Palmerston and Marian's looking good for
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  Speaker 3: Lingiari is it will be to work with the new
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  Speaker 3: chief Minisin and Natasha Files and Federal Labor with Territory
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  Speaker 3: labor working together and delivering.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Have you spoken to Albow since Saturday night and how
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  Speaker 1: are things looking in terms of you potentially getting a portfolio.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Elbows spoken positively about that in the past. We
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  Speaker 3: haven't had a proper conversation since then. He's had a
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  Speaker 3: bit has hat a bit on, but we've traded some
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  Speaker 3: text messages and you know, these things have worked out
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  Speaker 3: through kind of a party process, a.
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  Speaker 4: Bit of a bit of.
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  Speaker 3: You know, r G bargie and so people will no
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  Speaker 3: doubt see on the front page of the NT News
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  Speaker 3: this morning.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just making.
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  Speaker 3: It pretty clear that I've got a broad based life
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  Speaker 3: experience in which i could contribute to a number of ministries.
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  Speaker 3: So I've yeah, very definitely put my hand up.
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  Speaker 2: What portfolio would you like to try and get?
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  Speaker 1: Loke.
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  Speaker 3: I am very passionate about the economic and social development
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  Speaker 3: of the Northern Territory Darwin and Parmeerson obviously the seat
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  Speaker 3: that I'm so honored to represent, but more broadly.
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  Speaker 4: Across the North.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a lot we can do so that
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  Speaker 3: Ministry for Northern Australia. I think that will enable me
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  Speaker 3: to deliver for Territorians and I think it's about time
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  Speaker 3: that we had someone from the North in that role.
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  Speaker 3: Having said that, Murray Watt, who's the current minister, has
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  Speaker 3: done a good job and has been up here quite often,
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  Speaker 3: but obviously with a defense experience that I have being
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  Speaker 3: a veteran working in our Indo Pacific region before politics
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  Speaker 3: as I have, and the languages I can speak. I've
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  Speaker 3: also said to Penny Wong, I'd be happy to work
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  Speaker 3: with her in the Indo Pacific.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what posturing do you need to do to try
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  Speaker 1: and get one of those jobs, because I think it
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  Speaker 1: will be incredible for the Northern Territory to have the
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  Speaker 1: Minister for Northern Australia here in the Northern Territory. We
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  Speaker 1: know that we've got so many opportunities we have. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when you talk about our strategic location, there is so
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  Speaker 1: much going for us. What needs to happen here for
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  Speaker 1: you to pick up a role like that.
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  Speaker 4: I think.
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  Speaker 3: Across industry, and I know that the chiefnis is you know,
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  Speaker 3: is supportive, and her support will also be important because
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  Speaker 3: obviously it's you know, involves a lot of contact with
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  Speaker 3: those with the three jurisdictions w A, the NT and
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  Speaker 3: Northern Queensland. I guess part of my pitches that were central,
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  Speaker 3: but we also can get into the region. So when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to growing the live cattle trade, for example,
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  Speaker 3: you have been able to speak Indonesians helpful, but we
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  Speaker 3: can get over to Bai, over to Jakarta, over to
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  Speaker 3: where we're working there and build on that. But we
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  Speaker 3: can also you know I've worked in indigenous health at
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  Speaker 3: the same time, so I can work across into the
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  Speaker 3: Kimberley and into the Cape as well. So yeah, we're
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  Speaker 3: pretty well placed here to do the job. Party processes
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  Speaker 3: will now work out who's where. But I don't think
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  Speaker 3: we should understand ourselves. We are the capital of the North,
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  Speaker 3: at the fukrum of the Indo Pacific at the time
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  Speaker 3: where there's more growth in our region of the world
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  Speaker 3: than there ever has been in human history. Like we
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  Speaker 3: are perfectly situated. And so with my background and experience
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  Speaker 3: and passion for developing our country, securing our country, defending
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  Speaker 3: our country. I wait to see we'll go down to
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  Speaker 3: Camber early next week. I wait to see how the
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  Speaker 3: wise ones work it out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, I reckon it be a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: It would be a oneer thing for us in the
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  Speaker 1: Northern Territory, you know, to have our member for Solomon
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  Speaker 1: actually as a minister inside that cabinet room and able
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  Speaker 1: to fight for the territory and fight for Northern Australia.
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  Speaker 1: We know in some of these seats across the board
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  Speaker 1: across Australia, there has been a swing in some of
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  Speaker 1: those areas some liberal strongholds particularly, but also against the
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  Speaker 1: major parties more generally. But people voting for climate change
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  Speaker 1: and that Federal Integrity Commission in those teal seats. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what does that push towards climate change mean for the
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  Speaker 1: Northern Territory when we're largely seen as a gas powerhouse.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's many ramifications from the weekend's result
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  Speaker 3: that people are still, you know, sort of trying to
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  Speaker 3: come to terms with. We still haven't got a majority
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  Speaker 3: officially from the AEC. We've got at least seventy two seats.
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  Speaker 3: A full majority is seventy six. We're confident we can
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  Speaker 3: get to seventy seven for the first time, more independence
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  Speaker 3: than there's ever been. But I don't shy away from
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  Speaker 3: those conversations because it's clear to anyone that we've got
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  Speaker 3: more land and more sun than anywhere else in the country,
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  Speaker 3: and we're going to.
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  Speaker 4: Have the world's largest soul of farm here.
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  Speaker 3: It's not as if we're going to be dropping the
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  Speaker 3: ball or not playing our part in renewaballs. When it
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  Speaker 3: comes to gas, it's got to stack up economically, it's
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  Speaker 3: got to stack up environmentally.
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  Speaker 4: Water is precious, so do.
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  Speaker 1: You reckon it can do you think that we can
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  Speaker 1: be this manufacturing harbord and you know, really be tapping
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  Speaker 1: into that gas in the way that the Coalition thought
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  Speaker 1: that we could and would.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm really looking forward to the briefs from the departments,
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  Speaker 3: both from the anti government side and from the federal departments,
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  Speaker 3: to see where they're at with the planning, how the
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  Speaker 3: business plans will stack up. And we're obviously committed, as
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  Speaker 3: the Coalition did to the one point five billion. The
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  Speaker 3: thing that I'm concerned about, though, I guess, is that
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  Speaker 3: the multi user aspect doesn't seem sound to me when
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  Speaker 3: I say that Defense hasn't been consulted enough and they
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  Speaker 3: don't see where their role is and if this is
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  Speaker 3: a secondary port, we still haven't been briefed on the
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  Speaker 3: security review of the Darwin Port. That's something that will
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  Speaker 3: happen in government, but it's really unclear. Barnaby Joyce didn't
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  Speaker 3: make it clear. I think he's on your program a
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  Speaker 3: couple of times. A Defense's view about such massive investment
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  Speaker 3: needs to be taken into account, and obviously Richard Marles
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  Speaker 3: as the Defense Minister and Deputy Leader, will have those
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  Speaker 3: briefings now and then we'll move forward.
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  Speaker 2: So, Loke, what do you say.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's the potential here that the port lease
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  Speaker 1: could be handed back.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we just don't know what the security review is like.
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  Speaker 3: We just haven't been brief. You've really got a wonder
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  Speaker 3: why Scott Morrison and his team, who obviously played a
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  Speaker 3: part in in the port disappearing from Australian hands in
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  Speaker 3: the first place, would hide that security review, keep it
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  Speaker 3: from the people before a vote. It's puzzling, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: we are where we are. We need to be to
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  Speaker 3: be brief by the security agencies, not just Offense but
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  Speaker 3: the other security agencies and then we'll be in a
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  Speaker 3: better position to take appropriate action.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Luke Gosling, we are going to have to leave
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  Speaker 1: it there because the Chief Minister has just announced this
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  Speaker 1: cabinet reshuffle, so we're going to go across to her mate.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks so much for your time this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Big congratulations to you, and I think it would be
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful thing if we had the Minister for Northern
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  Speaker 1: Australia based right here in the Northern.
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  Speaker 4: Territory on your main.
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  Speaker 3: Fingers crossed for Marion and well done Malandari as well.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for your time this interest in a bipartisan way.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I think it's a good thing to make sure,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Territorians get it right and no matter how
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  Speaker 1: they vote, you've always got to respect the way that
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  Speaker 1: the electorate votes. And yeah, I think it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a good thing for us.
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  Speaker 2: Good on you mate, Thank you.