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Katie Woolf spoke with Mum Connie who is currently at Howard Springs with nothing to clean or sterilise a baby bottle with · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf on Mixed one oh four
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  Speaker 1: point nine thanks to Joyce Main Darwin. OK, hopefully we've
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  Speaker 1: got this phone line sorted, and I believe I've got
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  Speaker 1: Connie on the line out at Howard Springs. Good morning again, Connie, morning?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry? Is that a better?
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  Speaker 1: That is much better? Now? You're obviously out at Howard
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  Speaker 1: Springs with your partner and your six month old baby
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  Speaker 1: in quarantine out there after learning while you're on that
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  Speaker 1: flight back from Perth that that Perth had been declared
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  Speaker 1: a hot spot. And Connie, the concern at the moment
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  Speaker 1: is that you are out there caring for your young
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  Speaker 1: child and you're not able to get access to some
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  Speaker 1: of the essentials that realistically a lot of us don't
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  Speaker 1: travel with when we've got little e's like a sterilizer
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  Speaker 1: for bottles.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, so yeah, we weren't prepared to come here,
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  Speaker 2: and my baby is fad with the ball, so I
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  Speaker 2: need a clean bottle every three to four hours, and
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  Speaker 2: we didn't have any wash in liquid, so we requested
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  Speaker 2: that as soon as we got here. Told no, we
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  Speaker 2: just had to make do with what we had, and
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  Speaker 2: then they gave us a microwave sterilizer, but no microwave
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  Speaker 2: to put it in. I then also asked for a
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  Speaker 2: care package to be delivered because we live just in
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  Speaker 2: Zakoli and I have everything at home, and they said
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  Speaker 2: that the facility was full of too many residents and
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  Speaker 2: that this wouldn't be accessible. And then I was told
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  Speaker 2: later down the line that a sterilizer is a fire hazard,
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  Speaker 2: and just all these different stories. But I've finally gotten
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  Speaker 2: to someone today who has told me that I can't
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  Speaker 2: get a care package now, and they just delivered washed
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  Speaker 2: in liquid today. So this was all two days later
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  Speaker 2: after we got here, that we have finally been provided
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  Speaker 2: with some sort of equipment. I do understand the importance
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  Speaker 2: of the quarantine, and I agree with the Hard Springs facility,
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  Speaker 2: but just issues like this make it really difficult for
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  Speaker 2: families to be comfortable, especially when they don't know that
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  Speaker 2: they're going to be common here. And yeah, it's just
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  Speaker 2: been a really stressful experience. And I just hope that
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  Speaker 2: they're skin in some sort of traction that families soon
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  Speaker 2: have to go through it, because it's not a nice
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  Speaker 2: experience and we all want the best for our children.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, it's just been really difficult and we just
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  Speaker 2: feel like we're making extreme demand, but it's really just
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  Speaker 2: a basic need.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and that's the thing, Connie. I know that
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  Speaker 1: you're not the first mum who's been out there at
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  Speaker 1: Howard Springs that has gone through this difficulty. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that realistically, we understand that they're coping with a
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  Speaker 1: lot out there at Howard Springs, but we've got to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that if there are, you know, if there
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  Speaker 1: are babies that end up in quarantine, that we have
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  Speaker 1: got some of those essentials that are required that parents
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  Speaker 1: do require when they're looking after after little once.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, definitely, Yeah, it's just it's just been a
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  Speaker 2: bit disorganized kind of which is understandable. It's a busy
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  Speaker 2: time at the moment, but just even letting us have
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  Speaker 2: a care package could have resolved this within the space
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  Speaker 2: of a few hours whenever we first got here. But
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  Speaker 2: I only just getting tool today that this is something
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  Speaker 2: that can now bear arranged. But yeah, I just again
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  Speaker 2: totally agree with Hard Springs in the quarantine system. But
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  Speaker 2: it's a system which has presented me with a problem
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  Speaker 2: and it's prevented me from solving it myself. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's just a basic need really that needs to be massed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry to hear that. You know that you
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  Speaker 1: guys are out there and not able to get some
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  Speaker 1: of those essentials that really are required. I really appreciate
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  Speaker 1: you having a chat with us this morning. I've raised
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  Speaker 1: this with the Health Minister as well, So I do
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  Speaker 1: hope that this means that we see some change out there.
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  Speaker 1: You would think, you know, we're a year in now
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  Speaker 1: to Howard Springs operating. I would say that they're able
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that you know that if a young
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  Speaker 1: family is out there with little ones, that they're able
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  Speaker 1: to provide some of those things that are needed when
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  Speaker 1: you've got small children.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely absolutely agree.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Connie, I really appreciate you having a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a chat with us this morning. Let us know how
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  Speaker 1: you go and and yeah, I'll be keen to catch
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  Speaker 1: up with you again just to find out whether everything
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  Speaker 1: did indeed get sorted or does today?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Perfect, Thank thank you for hell Kitty
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks Connie.