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Katie Woolf spoke with Allison Kelly a passenger on flight from SA when the border rules changed and she's now in Howard Springs · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: We have been talking to the Hills Minister Natashaphiles about
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  Speaker 1: the hotspot declaration for South Australia, something that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people have been in contact with us about. And well,
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  Speaker 1: joining me on the line right now is a territory
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  Speaker 1: in who's currently in quarantine. And good morning to you Allison.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, good morning Allison.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that you were on one of those flights
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  Speaker 1: and did you get told mid air or when you
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  Speaker 1: land that you were going to have to go into quarantine.
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  Speaker 2: We got told probably we were actually coming into land.
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  Speaker 2: We came from Adelaide and we were about twenty minutes
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  Speaker 2: before we landed, and then the pilot explained that obviously
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  Speaker 2: the boards that borders had been declared closed and was
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  Speaker 2: a little unclear at that time what was going to
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  Speaker 2: happen with us. But by the time we landed, like
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  Speaker 2: within that next half hour, then the Border Force guy
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  Speaker 2: came on and said we were going straight to Howard Springs.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, I mean yeah, I reckon they would have been.
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  Speaker 1: What was the reaction from you and the other passengers.
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  Speaker 2: I think initially when the pile, nobody was expecting that
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  Speaker 2: we really weren't we were aware. Well, certainly me and
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  Speaker 2: my husband were aware of the evening before about the
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  Speaker 2: four cases. I didn't really know, probably ignorant, you didn't
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  Speaker 2: take too much notice, but had a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a thought of thankfully, we're going back home in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: So it was the last thing we expected, genuinely, and
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  Speaker 2: I really do think the rest of the plane were
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  Speaker 2: exactly the same.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was a bizarre feeling because the initial reaction was
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  Speaker 2: for myself speaking for myself, with a panic Yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't even I can't. It sounds really dramatic, but
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  Speaker 2: you just go into the oh oh oh.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I reckon you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and so what was the little bit of anxiety
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  Speaker 2: and stuff?
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, oh, there'd be so many things that would
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  Speaker 1: run through your head, including, you know, if I got
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  Speaker 1: clothes for two weeks, what am I going to do
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  Speaker 1: for food? What do I need to tell my work?
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  Speaker 1: All sorts of things, and yeah, and we've.
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  Speaker 2: Got a dog in kennels as well. That was he
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  Speaker 2: was my first was one of my first thoughts was
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  Speaker 2: my my my dogs at the furry godmother what I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, a joke reaction of old panic. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you just need to digest that for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Allison, what's been the process then, you know, from the
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  Speaker 1: plane in terms of getting into quarantine.
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  Speaker 2: So we literally we we came off the plane, we
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  Speaker 2: were just directed through through the airport, had had tests,
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  Speaker 2: we have the paperwork we had to bring backward as anyway,
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  Speaker 2: So we went through that process and literally straight on
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  Speaker 2: straight on the bossy and we're then brought through to
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  Speaker 2: how It's rings. Pretty. It was a pretty It was
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  Speaker 2: a really quick process and everyone all the stuff, everybody,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was I suppose it was very very quick,
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  Speaker 2: short notice for those guys too, Yeah, you know, taking
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  Speaker 2: that into consideration, and so yeah, the process was seamless
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  Speaker 2: from from my point of view, from our point of view,
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  Speaker 2: and when we got to Howard Springs then obviously they
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  Speaker 2: they've done it a few times before, so it was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a well oiled machine. And literally we were
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  Speaker 2: just chaperone through all the paperwork completed and then brought
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  Speaker 2: to your rooms. We were giving food, we were giving
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  Speaker 2: slaps straight away. Yeah, and they obviously and they obviously
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  Speaker 2: the stuff here. I'm sure we're quite aware that certainly
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  Speaker 2: for our plane load were in shock that we were like,
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  Speaker 2: what's happening? And they were they were. They were just great.
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  Speaker 2: They were just so considerate of that, Ellie. So I
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  Speaker 2: speak really highly about how the staff were or are here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and how they handled us yesterday morning, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Well that is I mean, that's really good to hear Allison,
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  Speaker 1: twenty four hours in. How you I mean, how are
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  Speaker 1: you feeling now that you've sort of had a bit
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  Speaker 1: of time for it to settle in and yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so much different from yesterday morning. So we have
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  Speaker 2: so one of my our first thoughts was we've only
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  Speaker 2: gone for a weekend, a bit of a long weekend,
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  Speaker 2: and so we I just thought, I've just got a suitcase,
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  Speaker 2: well a small suitcase full of dirty clothes, but nothing
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  Speaker 2: toiletryes non and that kind of thing. But but look,
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  Speaker 2: we've put an order into Wooly if they do a
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  Speaker 2: click and collect the staff here collect that for you.
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  Speaker 2: And we've had we've we've been fared, we've slept, we've
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  Speaker 2: got our rooms. You kind of know the lay of
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  Speaker 2: the land now, and then you just literally take stock
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  Speaker 2: and go, do you know what we are? We could
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  Speaker 2: be so much worse. We're not in hospital, We're not
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  Speaker 2: we as far as I know, we don't have COVID thankfully.
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  Speaker 2: And we're in the safest place, one of the safest
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  Speaker 2: places I reckon in the world. So you've just got
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  Speaker 2: to be grateful for what you have, not not what
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  Speaker 2: you haven't got it. Yeah, you've just got to be
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  Speaker 2: appreciative of and realize what a lot of other people
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  Speaker 2: are going through. And not to get the nerses, the doctors,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, even the staff here, the medical officers that
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  Speaker 2: approached us for she's full ppe, she's got the whole mass,
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  Speaker 2: she's got everything on and it's a million degrees, as
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  Speaker 2: you know. And I'm just like, oh my god, that
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  Speaker 2: is yeah, i have no right, i have no right
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  Speaker 2: to complain to watch up, I'm not no right to complain.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you've got the right attitude about it, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that you sort of have to have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: being forced into that situation, I'd been the same. You
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  Speaker 1: got no other choice, Allison. Allison, I really appreciate your
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  Speaker 1: time this morning. We are going to have to leave
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  Speaker 1: it there, but it's really good to talk to you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for spending that time talking with
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  Speaker 1: us and giving us a bit of perspective.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, mother, welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Allison, you too, and hope that you go well
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  Speaker 1: in there for the next two weeks. Good on you, Allison.
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  Speaker 1: And well, that was Alison Kelly. She was one of
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  Speaker 1: those passengers that was on the plane yesterday from Adelaide
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  Speaker 1: that had to well get straight out of the plane
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  Speaker 1: and into quarantine.