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Katie Woolf spoke with SkyNews Matt Cunningham at Darwin Airport · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: But joining me right now, I believe out at the
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  Speaker 1: airport is Sky News correspondent for the Northern Territory, Matt Cunningham.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Matt. Hello, are you out at the airport mate?
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  Speaker 1: Just waiting for the plane to arrive?
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  Speaker 2: I am on. I'm just out on am Johnson Avenue
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  Speaker 2: in London the runway where the plane flies, just waiting
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  Speaker 2: for those plane spotts to arrive.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm sure no doubt about it. And what time
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  Speaker 1: exactly are we expecting that plane?
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  Speaker 2: Around about eleven forty nine the last estament I thought.
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  Speaker 2: The plane we got from London last night. It's about
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy people who are on board that
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  Speaker 2: plane on the.
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  Speaker 3: Group creations that we're going to see come from the UK,
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  Speaker 3: India and South Africa here to the top end. So
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  Speaker 3: just before lunchtime they are expecting this plane to arrive
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  Speaker 3: basically that they selected them. Much people come on this
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  Speaker 3: particular flight. So several people and babies apparently are on
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  Speaker 3: the quartet flight to heading to Darland, so it might
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  Speaker 3: be a bit of a walker strip the people who
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  Speaker 3: are on board. I know, whether you've ever find a baby,
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  Speaker 3: it's an experience, not just you but pretty much everyone
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  Speaker 3: around you.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna's say, mate. One of the worst flights I've
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  Speaker 1: ever been on was when my daughter was about fourteen
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  Speaker 1: months old, and it culminated with us both crying under
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  Speaker 1: a blanket.
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  Speaker 3: When down from Melbourne in very early twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: My youngest daughter was about fourteen months at the top
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  Speaker 2: all of the time, and I spent a whole entire.
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  Speaker 3: Four and a half hour pacing up and.
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  Speaker 2: Down the aisle of the plane that are doing it
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  Speaker 2: up and down in my arm.
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  Speaker 1: I think, goodness mate, it sounds like it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be an interesting flight for the Aussie expats. But I
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  Speaker 1: suppose they're all going to be so happy to get
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  Speaker 1: back onto Aussie soil that that you know, it won't
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  Speaker 1: matter too much.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean these peason we're basically seen stranded in many
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  Speaker 2: cases for more than six months.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, you know, the international boarders.
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  Speaker 2: Have been closed and saying are almost impossible for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of these seasons to get a commercial flight back
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  Speaker 2: to their home state to state to put cups from
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  Speaker 2: the number of people who's been allowing him because of restrictions.
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to the hotel quarantine that means that
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  Speaker 2: the people who have been flying back have been paying
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  Speaker 2: huge amounts of money to get on those planes. That
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  Speaker 2: often those flights have been canceled. So in this case,
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  Speaker 2: these people are paying two thousand dollars, which now seems
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  Speaker 2: relatively cheap I think for this flight from the UK
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  Speaker 2: back in year to day, and and then of course
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  Speaker 2: I'll have to stump up another two and a half
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars to their two weeks in quarantine and how
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  Speaker 2: it brings. But I think a lot of these people
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  Speaker 2: are rather costly secondary. I think there are a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people here who've been desperate to get home for
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  Speaker 2: a long time. And I'll be glad when that plane
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  Speaker 2: does cut down later this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And Matt, we have learned a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more detail as well about those arm bands and things
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  Speaker 1: that that these expats are going to be wearing, obviously
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  Speaker 1: to keep an eye on them ensure that they do
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  Speaker 1: not have COVID, but also to keep the wider community safe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, and from the National Critical Care and
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  Speaker 2: Trauma Response that were showing these off yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Goes on your arm and basically we can monitor all
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  Speaker 3: sorts of wine, not just the temperature, so they get
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  Speaker 3: an idea pretty much straight away if someone coming down
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  Speaker 3: with any temperature or any symptoms of the coronavirus. So
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  Speaker 3: it's pretty amazing and obviously those people will have those
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  Speaker 3: on out how it's and so you know that's great.
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  Speaker 3: Over NAT team will be able to really keep on
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  Speaker 3: properties straight away. People who are arriving from overseas again
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  Speaker 3: to be separate at strings walking from the interstrative rivals
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  Speaker 3: has been coming more over the past few months. About
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  Speaker 3: five hundred deads have been set aside in a shifted
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  Speaker 3: section of that.
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  Speaker 2: Facility, all of these people who are being patch repatriated
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  Speaker 2: from overseas, but they really held in a separate, separate
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  Speaker 2: part at Howard Springs.
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  Speaker 3: To the people we've.
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  Speaker 2: Seen coming timing to stay and we had to an
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  Speaker 2: incredible number of those people coming from interstate quarantine.
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  Speaker 3: We are eble to come.
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  Speaker 2: Through the territory or as a route as you know,
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  Speaker 2: wle come to the UNC because they want to go
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  Speaker 2: to places like queen So a lot of people coming
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  Speaker 2: from New South Wales to the UNC to get to
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  Speaker 2: Queensland seems ridiculous, doesn't order it close between New South
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  Speaker 2: Wales and Queensland, although they have had an election there
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  Speaker 2: next week and I reckon I might have a bit.
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  Speaker 3: To do with it.
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  Speaker 1: I reckon it will as well well. Matt Cunningham. Always
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  Speaker 1: good to catch up with you mate. You're missed a
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  Speaker 1: pretty wild and exciting week that was this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry I wasn't there.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I was a little bit out there that
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have.
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  Speaker 3: Got a word in.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, A good time we did, Matt Cunningham, always good
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  Speaker 1: to catch up. We'll talk to you again next week,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt. Thank you. That is Matt Cunningham there. From
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  Speaker 1: Sky News