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Katie Woolf spoke with Deputy Opposition Leader Gerard Maley · 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 2: Every one is listening mixed one oh four point nine.
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  Speaker 3: We did just hear that that a group of rural
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  Speaker 3: residents have won thirty five million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're out in humpty doo.
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  Speaker 3: Jered Mayley, the Deputy Opposition leader, joins me in the studio.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't you, was it?
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  Speaker 3: Mate?
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  Speaker 1: Certainly wasn't Katie. And if it was me, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I'd be here right now about celebrated.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you'd stand us up for thirty five mil?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: Fair enough.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's keep moving because the vaccine rollout is certainly
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  Speaker 3: high on the agenda at the moment and plenty of
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  Speaker 3: people quite concerned. We learned late yesterday that we have
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  Speaker 3: a woman who is now in Royal Darwin Hospital who
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  Speaker 3: had to be transported across from WA following on from
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  Speaker 3: having that vaccine. She's in a stable condition. But essentially
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  Speaker 3: the woman in her forties was vaccinated in Western Australia
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  Speaker 3: and is now in that stable condition. But the head
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  Speaker 3: of the Therapeutic Goods Administration revealed that that latest case
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  Speaker 3: of blood clotting was obviously this one that is now
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  Speaker 3: at Royal Darwin Hospital. Senator Sam McMahon has issued a statement.
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  Speaker 3: We are going to be catching up with her after
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  Speaker 3: ten o'clock this morning, but she's issued a statement really
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  Speaker 3: calling on the Gunner government to halt that vaccine in
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  Speaker 3: everybody under the age of fifty.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that's the way to go?
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  Speaker 1: Well, look, Katie, I'm not a doctor, but what I
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  Speaker 1: think about this is that we really need to rely
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  Speaker 1: on the expert on the medical advice. And I understand
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  Speaker 1: the Prime Minister is now calling the National cabin to
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  Speaker 1: twice a week and to consider the whole role out
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  Speaker 1: and make sure it keeps moving forward. And that body
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  Speaker 1: or that group of people are going to get health
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  Speaker 1: advice from the best people in Australia. So what we
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  Speaker 1: need to do is to listen to those health advice
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  Speaker 1: and trust that advice because ultimately we rely on them
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  Speaker 1: to look after us as territories and Australians and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure they do the right thing. So we really need
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  Speaker 1: to trust what these experts say and then what the
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  Speaker 1: federal government in turn down to the anti government have
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  Speaker 1: to do, because they're all part of that national body
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  Speaker 1: and putting whole politics side here. Australians and territories need
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  Speaker 1: to be kept safe and we need to rely upon
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  Speaker 1: expert evidence and advice on these doctors.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I sort of wonder as well, you know,
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  Speaker 3: as this faccine, as different vaccines roll out and as
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  Speaker 3: different you know, as people get vaccinated, we are going
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  Speaker 3: to see some issues arise and we need to be
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  Speaker 3: a little bit fluid in this space and sort of
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  Speaker 3: and make some changes as health officials determine that those
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  Speaker 3: changes do need to be made.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm glad that they are reviewing it constantly,
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  Speaker 1: because I would be disappointed to find out they made
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  Speaker 1: a decision months ago and then you stick with it
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  Speaker 1: and too scared to make that change. But it's really
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  Speaker 1: heartening for me to hear that they're continuing to review
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  Speaker 1: it and keeping our territories and Australians at the best
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  Speaker 1: and keeping them safe and that information changes as it
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  Speaker 1: goes along, because this whole COVID thing is new to us. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: It's changed a lot in lives across Australian across the world,
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  Speaker 1: and we just need to be kept as forward and
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  Speaker 1: keep moving with that as much as we can.
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  Speaker 3: Well, like I said, we are going to be catching
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  Speaker 3: up with the Senator after ten o'clock, so we'll hear
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  Speaker 3: what she's got to say on that topic. Now, yesterday
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  Speaker 3: we learned that eighteen homes in Palmerston have been found
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  Speaker 3: to be structurally inadequate in design and non compliant with
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  Speaker 3: the Building Code of Australia at the time of construction.
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  Speaker 3: We spoke about this yesterday morning and we've had quite
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  Speaker 3: a few people get in contact with us about this situation.
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  Speaker 3: We also learned yesterday when we spoke about this, that
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  Speaker 3: the government first became aware of the situation with these
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  Speaker 3: homes back in twenty fourteen. Jared, do you think more
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  Speaker 3: should have been done by the government to help these
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  Speaker 3: people that are in a situation where their homes aren't
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  Speaker 3: structurally sound, especially given the fact that we then went
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  Speaker 3: through a cyclone after that twenty fourteen point.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the labor gun and government have left
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  Speaker 1: these territories high and right. You know, buying and building
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  Speaker 1: a home is a home dream in Australians to do that.
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  Speaker 1: And if you go and do that and next minute
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  Speaker 1: you find that your homes not satisfactory, And remember the
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  Speaker 1: government have got these insurance funds there for this particular
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  Speaker 1: purpose to be able to fix those in their houses
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  Speaker 1: and comply with Australian standards. It's there and it just
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  Speaker 1: shows that the government haven't been open and accountable to territorientin.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to constituent who talked to me about this
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  Speaker 1: and said that one of the houses that he is
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  Speaker 1: dealing with was it proved to be fixing back in
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  Speaker 1: August last year. Yet nothing's happened, So again the government's
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  Speaker 1: dragging its chain or what's happening.
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  Speaker 2: Has he been given any reason why notnything's happened?
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  Speaker 1: He said, he's been kept in the dark and he's
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  Speaker 1: not sure what's going on. And I haven't spoken him
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  Speaker 1: since this has been released, but he's really concerned and
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  Speaker 1: come to saw me about it and said, why is
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  Speaker 1: it taking so long? They've got the fund, it's been
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  Speaker 1: approved and that was August last year and still nothing
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  Speaker 1: and these people are living in a house which is substandards.
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  Speaker 3: And yesterday we did catch up, like I said, with
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  Speaker 3: the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics, the Building Control
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  Speaker 3: Director mister Mark Meldrum, and he said that this report
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  Speaker 3: found that there was no immediate safety risk. However, residents
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  Speaker 3: do have to evacuate in the case of a cyclone.
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  Speaker 3: So again I sort of wonder, and I wasn't aware
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  Speaker 3: of this, you know, prior to that interview yesterday morning.
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  Speaker 3: But you sort of wonder then if you look back
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  Speaker 3: at the fact that they knew since twenty fourteen, and
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  Speaker 3: then these residents should have actually evacuated during a cyclone,
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  Speaker 3: but then they've gone through a cyclone in those homes.
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  Speaker 3: To me, I just can't work out, you know, where
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  Speaker 3: the communication has fallen down or why these residents haven't
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  Speaker 3: been told, but indeed why they're in this situation in
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  Speaker 3: the first place exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And the Labor Gunment always talk about being open and accountable.
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  Speaker 1: This is a classic example where the filed territories, I've
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  Speaker 1: known about this, they've kept it a secret. And the
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  Speaker 1: only reason that they've had been talking to you about
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  Speaker 1: this is because other people have brought and raised it
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  Speaker 1: to attention and they've had to come and answer these questions.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't been out there and saying, oh, this is
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  Speaker 1: what we're doing and being proactive. They'd come to the
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  Speaker 1: table kicking and screaming because they've got no choice.
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  Speaker 3: Also though, have you had a look at some of
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  Speaker 3: those photos. I mean, they're saying that the houses are
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  Speaker 3: structurally sound, but gee whiz, you know, some of those
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  Speaker 3: photos show that there is some pretty clear faults and
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  Speaker 3: I'd be really disappointed if I was one of those homeowners,
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  Speaker 3: thinking to.
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  Speaker 2: Myself, how did it sort of get to that point?
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  Speaker 3: Everything gets checked off, as I understand it, even when
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  Speaker 3: I've done a renovation on my own home, everything gets
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  Speaker 3: checked off at different points, So I can't understand how
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  Speaker 3: everything's sort of been checked off and gone through when
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  Speaker 3: clearly there's some pretty big issues.
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  Speaker 1: It just shows that the Labor government have failed territory.
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  Speaker 1: And once again I've seen some of these photos as well,
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  Speaker 1: and there's like a russ falling in, really serious russ
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  Speaker 1: in the verandahs where you couldn't walk on it because
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  Speaker 1: there's a danger of falling through, not just the difference
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  Speaker 1: from falling from the rand to the ground, but as
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  Speaker 1: you fell through all the cuts and bruises and the
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  Speaker 1: russ you get. It would just be really really dangerous situation.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I'm still on the housing, but onto a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a different line. It is being reported in the
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  Speaker 3: Northern Territory news today that the territory's COVID nineteen rental
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  Speaker 3: measures have been extended, despite Attorney General Selena Hubo being
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  Speaker 3: told that it was no longer necessary by the Northern
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  Speaker 3: Territory's Peak real Estate Body.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to be.
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  Speaker 3: Catching up with Quentin Killey and from the Real Estate
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  Speaker 3: Institute of the Northern Territory in a little while. But
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  Speaker 3: I mean, have you had a look at this and
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  Speaker 3: do you think that it is appropriate that they are
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  Speaker 3: continuing on with this rather than actually doing what the
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  Speaker 3: Peak body has asked and halting it.
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  Speaker 1: We were just speaking about the coronavirus and how we
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  Speaker 1: rely on his experts to give us advice and that's
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  Speaker 1: what the government needs to do. The government aren't experts
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  Speaker 1: in all fields and they rely on people. And then
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  Speaker 1: they've got this advice and I haven't followed it. So
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  Speaker 1: and again another example of getting advice from someone out
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  Speaker 1: there who knows what's going on, a peak body and
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  Speaker 1: not following that advice.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you what it does mean that the
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  Speaker 3: notice gives tenants sixty days notice to leave a property
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  Speaker 3: for both fixed term and periodic tenancy agreements. Normal protocol
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  Speaker 3: is apparently fourteen days. So we'll catch up with one
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  Speaker 3: of those experts. We will catch up with quintin killy
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  Speaker 3: and in just a little while now. Earlier this week
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  Speaker 3: Jared the Opposition obviously called for parliament to be recalled
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  Speaker 3: on the situation with crime. We caught up with Leofanocchiaro,
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  Speaker 3: the opposition leader on Monday. We also spoke to the
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  Speaker 3: Chief Minister Michael Gunner on Monday. He's digging his heels in.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't look as though there is going to be
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  Speaker 3: a parliament a day recalled to get this legislation across
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  Speaker 3: the line. They've said that it is going to be
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  Speaker 3: in May. I mean, we caught up again with the
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  Speaker 3: Police Association then yesterday, who said that it does really
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  Speaker 3: need to happen sooner rather than later.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you reckon?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, why do you think the government is digging
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  Speaker 3: their heels in on this or do you think it
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  Speaker 3: is a situation where the legislation has to be right
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  Speaker 3: or it is not going to actually serve the intended purpose.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is a classic example where the opposition
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  Speaker 1: where lee If and Akira is leading from the front.
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  Speaker 1: She's been out and listening to Territorians about crime. And
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  Speaker 1: I've said this before on this radio station. We cannot
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  Speaker 1: be as in the Sea or P cannot be the
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  Speaker 1: only elected members where people are coming talking about crime.
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  Speaker 1: It must be right across all through Labor, all across
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  Speaker 1: the territory. Yeah, and the COLP actively something about it,
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  Speaker 1: went away and got the legislation professionally drafted through Parliamentary Council.
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  Speaker 1: And yet the government didn't support it. Now they didn't
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  Speaker 1: support it in this entirely. They could have changed it
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, they didn't do anything. They just knocked
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  Speaker 1: it out, just said no, no, no, because they were
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  Speaker 1: worried that the opposition and Lee was leading from the
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  Speaker 1: front and running the ball up here and listening to
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  Speaker 1: territorianes where Labor have it. So that is a real
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  Speaker 1: concern to me. Are they playing politics or in rating
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  Speaker 1: to crime and safety of territorianes, which I think they are,
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  Speaker 1: Which is, if that's true, that's really really bad form.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, in their defense, obviously they are saying that
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  Speaker 3: that they want to be making changes that there obviously
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  Speaker 3: that they feel are required and that they need will
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  Speaker 3: they need quite a bit of time to be able
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  Speaker 3: to get the legislation, right, They had some concerns by
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  Speaker 3: the sounds of things with exactly what you guys had
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  Speaker 3: brought forward to Parliament and the fact that they'd received
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  Speaker 3: it sort of the night before. They think that there
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  Speaker 3: needs to be a bit more thought go into it.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think though, at this point that we're actually
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  Speaker 3: going to be able to get this legislation through in May?
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  Speaker 3: I mean we're talking about introducing it. It would obviously
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  Speaker 3: need to go through on urgency and pass. Do you
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  Speaker 3: think that that's actually during those budget sittings?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's two heads in that question, Katy. Is the
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  Speaker 1: first thing in the Labor government haven't enough time. They
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  Speaker 1: were the previous government. They've been in power for over
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  Speaker 1: four and a half years, so they've had plenty of
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  Speaker 1: time to deal with this. And crime just hasn't popped
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  Speaker 1: up in the last six months. Crime has been with
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  Speaker 1: us for a long time and the Labor government had
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  Speaker 1: just constantly put their head in the stand and ignored it.
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  Speaker 1: The CLP did something about it, and again Gunner just
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  Speaker 1: paid politics with it and put territory in his lives
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  Speaker 1: at risk because, as the Police Association said, what is
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  Speaker 1: doing is putting territory into at risk and making more
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  Speaker 1: work for the police to do their job properly. So
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  Speaker 1: the police are out there working hard, doing the hard yards,
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  Speaker 1: and the labor government aren't supporting them.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember last.
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  Speaker 1: Year there was a survey. I think ninety percent of
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  Speaker 1: the police weren't happy with how the Gunner government is
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  Speaker 1: handling the policing and issues in the Northern territory. So
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  Speaker 1: this isn't a new issue, and yet Gunner hasn't anything about.
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  Speaker 1: It's had plenty of time and they just haven't done it.
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  Speaker 3: So do you reckon though, that this is going to
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  Speaker 3: get across the line in May? Well?
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  Speaker 1: The problem he May is goot budget, so and our
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  Speaker 1: budget is in a terrible situation. We've got a massive debt.
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  Speaker 3: Are you guys going to support it though? Are you
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  Speaker 3: going to support this legislation when they do bring it forward?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we obviously the devils into detail, but we are
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  Speaker 1: going to support legislation that's going to help territories and
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  Speaker 1: reduce crime because it's all about the repeat offenders. About
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  Speaker 1: the presumption of bail, and I in my previous life
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  Speaker 1: did a bit about that, so know I understand how
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  Speaker 1: Baale works in the presumption of bail and it would
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  Speaker 1: be easy to fix. Our legislation wasn't complicated. I think
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  Speaker 1: there were six lines in it. Again, if they said
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have enough time, we gave to them before
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  Speaker 1: the day before. You're not meant to do it. We
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  Speaker 1: did it on the day apartment. That's how parliament works,
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  Speaker 1: so we gave them more time than they're required, and
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  Speaker 1: yet it's a very simple change.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's going to be very interesting to see how
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  Speaker 3: this all rolls out when the May sittings roll around, because,
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  Speaker 3: as I said, it does look as though the government's
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  Speaker 3: sort of digging their heels in here. They're not prepared
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  Speaker 3: to recall parliament for a day. I do want to
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  Speaker 3: ask you just very quickly. I know that the government
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  Speaker 3: made their announcement last week about the two new commissioners
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  Speaker 3: for the Territory Economic Response, Well the Turk as it's called. Jared,
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  Speaker 3: your office had let us know that you guys have
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  Speaker 3: had a look and apparently these positions haven't actually been advertised.
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  Speaker 1: Yess well, that's my understanding. We checked it out and
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  Speaker 1: they haven't been advertised. So you know, the Labor government
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  Speaker 1: come on and said we're going to do this and
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  Speaker 1: do it immediately, and they haven't even done that, so
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  Speaker 1: it's been a week and haven't been advertised.
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  Speaker 3: So these two new commissioner positions, we know that someone
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  Speaker 3: or these people acting in both of them at this
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  Speaker 3: point in time. But our understanding is that they were
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  Speaker 3: going to advertise them. You're saying that they're not being advertised.
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  Speaker 1: That the understanding that we've got, and we did a
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  Speaker 1: bit of research because again it's back to our territory coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: These people need real teeth, They need legis of power
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  Speaker 1: to be able to go in and make changes and
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  Speaker 1: bring time frames forward and not cut corners because the
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  Speaker 1: environment at that of stuff very important, but just to bring
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  Speaker 1: these developments online quickly. Well, and they're talking when I say,
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  Speaker 1: the Labor government talking about the bail laws not having
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  Speaker 1: enough time. Well, this is rushed and this is probably
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  Speaker 1: almost just as important because we're talking about growing our
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  Speaker 1: economy because we've got a massive jet and the only
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  Speaker 1: way out of that is to grow the economy. And
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  Speaker 1: again this is another fire.
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  Speaker 2: While later, Well, we'll see what we can find out today.
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  Speaker 3: Deputy Opposition Leader Jared Mayley, good to catch up with
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  Speaker 3: you this morning, mate, Thanks so much for coming in,
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  Speaker 3: thank you,