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Katie Woolf spoke with Deputy Opposition Leader Gerard Maley Wed 30 June 2021 · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf.
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  Speaker 2: Join the conversation with Katie Wolf.
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  Speaker 3: You are our eyes and ears in the Territory mixed
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  Speaker 3: one oh four point nine. Okay, we are due to
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  Speaker 3: catch up with the Deputy Opposition leader Jared Mayley in
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  Speaker 3: just a moment. But I know that so many of
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  Speaker 3: you are in the line out there at Marra this morning,
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  Speaker 3: and Ian joins me alive from that line, I believe,
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  Speaker 3: good morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: Ian, Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: How's it going out there? Mice?
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty good. Look, we've been out here for about
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  Speaker 2: two hours now. We've got an appointment scheduled and the
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  Speaker 2: sidelineer's off into a car park at the Rugby ground
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  Speaker 2: and they're going to ring us as it gets near
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  Speaker 2: our appointment time to come forward. But what I'm ringing
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  Speaker 2: about is there's a lot of people wandering around out
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  Speaker 2: here looking for toilets, and there are Dinny. We've seen
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  Speaker 2: a couple of guys sort of stand behind some very
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  Speaker 2: skinny threes out are here. But the girls have got
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  Speaker 2: real problems out here. I just think it would be
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  Speaker 2: a good idea if to put a few porterloos out here.
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  Speaker 3: Ian, that is a very very good idea, and your
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  Speaker 3: spot on, mate. We need to make sure that there
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  Speaker 3: are provisions out there, that there is a toilet out there.
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  Speaker 3: I guess the problem's going to be though as well,
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  Speaker 3: is you know, when it comes to that isolating and
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  Speaker 3: then there being a public toilet, whether they're going to
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  Speaker 3: be able to I really don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's going to be some wet car seats around.
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to be in one of those lines. Ian.
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  Speaker 3: What time was your appointment booked for?
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  Speaker 2: We're not actually scheduled to go in until twelve o'clock,
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  Speaker 2: right pretty early. Have to see in the line yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: I thinking it might take us a while to get
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  Speaker 2: around there. They seem to have be a bit better
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  Speaker 2: organized this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, well that is good to hear. Good on
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  Speaker 3: you guys. And were you at one of those contact sites, Ian,
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  Speaker 3: We were.
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  Speaker 2: We were at the Gateway shopping Center at their relevant times. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, and I think that you know, there's so many
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  Speaker 3: people who are concerned, and you know, while I've obviously
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  Speaker 3: been a bit critical or certainly asking questions of the
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  Speaker 3: minister this morning about those wait times and that kind
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  Speaker 3: of thing, I am heartened to see that the way
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  Speaker 3: that the territories just pulled together and everybody who believes
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  Speaker 3: that they do need to get tested is turned up
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  Speaker 3: and they're doing the right thing. By the sounds of it.
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  Speaker 1: My appointment.
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  Speaker 2: What was There's a lady in the car next to
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  Speaker 2: us just said that her appointment was eight twenty five
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  Speaker 2: and she's still sitting here waiting to get called forward.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, well, well tell her you know. Good on
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  Speaker 3: you guys for being patient. We're thinking of you all
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  Speaker 3: in that line. And yeah, we're doing our best to
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  Speaker 3: keep you entertained on the radio while you're in.
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  Speaker 2: The line in Yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: No worries, mate, Thank you, have a good day. Let
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  Speaker 3: us know how you go as well. Send us a
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  Speaker 3: message and let us know. Good on your ian And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we are thinking of all of you guys in that
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  Speaker 3: line this morning. Send us a message if you want
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  Speaker 3: let us know what's going on. If you've got something
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  Speaker 3: that you want to have a quick chat to us about,
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  Speaker 3: we would love to speak to you. Keep your company
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  Speaker 3: while you are in what is said to be an
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  Speaker 3: awfully long line this morning and a long wait. Now
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  Speaker 3: joining us on the line is the Deputy opposition leader,
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  Speaker 3: Jared Mainly. Good morning, to you, Jared.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Katie, Good morning listeners.
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  Speaker 3: Mate. Obviously a lot of talk this morning about the
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  Speaker 3: testing that's going on out there at Marra. Do you
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  Speaker 3: think that the government needs to stand up another site
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  Speaker 3: or have some additional staff so that we're able to
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  Speaker 3: really get through these tests as quickly as possible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Katy, Look, they're gun of government had eighteen months
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  Speaker 1: to prepare for the situation, because I think that you'd
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  Speaker 1: have to be prepared for it because it deably is
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  Speaker 1: here and I'm going to deal with it now. But
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately the execution of that plan hasn't gone down to
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  Speaker 1: what they expected. You know, the plan was is to
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  Speaker 1: lock down and trace and trap the virus, and then
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately this testing issue and it's just been out of control.
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  Speaker 1: The people are waiting up for six hours, his children
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  Speaker 1: in the car just to try and get tested. People
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  Speaker 1: are encouraged to go and get testing and they just
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  Speaker 1: simply can't because it's very difficult waiting for that long
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  Speaker 1: in line.
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  Speaker 3: Well hearing this morning, you know, even some of those
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  Speaker 3: provisions like being able to go to the toilet obviously
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  Speaker 3: while you're in the line. I know it seems incidental,
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  Speaker 3: but at the end of the day. If we're making
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  Speaker 3: people wait for that long, we've got to try to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that they're okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, like I said, it's just the execution of the
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  Speaker 1: plan hasn't gone down. They're going to government needs to
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  Speaker 1: step up. This could get worse before it gets better.
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  Speaker 1: There needs to be additional testing. It needs to be
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  Speaker 1: easy to get tested. They encourage people to get tested,
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  Speaker 1: and people aren't going to go and get tested if
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  Speaker 1: they have to wait for six hours and get turned
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  Speaker 1: away and come back tomorrow or the next day. We
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  Speaker 1: just need to make sure that we contain this virus,
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  Speaker 1: and we do that through testing well.
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  Speaker 3: And the big concern I think at this point as well,
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  Speaker 3: is that, you know, we are anticipating We're anticipating an
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  Speaker 3: awful lot of people are going to need to be
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  Speaker 3: tested as those exposure sites grow. Now the worry is
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  Speaker 3: we are being told that we're in lockdown until one
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  Speaker 3: pm on frit But it's going to be critical that
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  Speaker 3: those tests are able to be turned around quickly so
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  Speaker 3: that we are able to get out of lockdown and
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  Speaker 3: ensure that this thing hasn't spread further than we initially thought.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're right, Katie, there certainly needs to be some
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  Speaker 1: thought about that. I remember there's over twenty five thousand
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  Speaker 1: people who live in the rural area and how many
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  Speaker 1: any testing sites out here, and if those exposure sites grow,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps they do need to start thinking about additional testing
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  Speaker 1: sites because, like I said, what we need here is
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  Speaker 1: clear communicator. It's not chaos. Unfortunately, there is chaos around.
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  Speaker 2: The testing Jared.
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  Speaker 3: The other thing is the vaccine roll out. We learned
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  Speaker 3: yesterday that there is going to be another vaccine center
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  Speaker 3: set up at Marara on a Barala road there at
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  Speaker 3: the Italian the Italian Club, but it's already totally booked out.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how exactly we manage the roll out better,
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  Speaker 3: or if we need another center, or if we just
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  Speaker 3: don't have enough vaccine at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Well, ultimately we need to make sure that because that's
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  Speaker 1: the second part of this plane. We need to get
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  Speaker 1: ourself tested. We need to get vaccinated, So the gun
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  Speaker 1: and government needs to step up and make sure if
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  Speaker 1: you want to get vaccinated you can there's a site
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  Speaker 1: that you can go and get get vaccinated. Because we
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  Speaker 1: during estimates, we work out that the health mins they
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  Speaker 1: had a budget of five hundred thousand dollars for an
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  Speaker 1: awareness program, and yet only half of that scenes have
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  Speaker 1: been spent. So there needs to get out there in
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  Speaker 1: the community because as we all know, there's a confusion
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  Speaker 1: about the vaccine and the rollout and whether it's good
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  Speaker 1: or bad, So the government needs to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: they can deal with that and they get as many
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  Speaker 1: people vaccinated as possible.
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  Speaker 3: Deputy Opposition leader Jared Maylee, we appreciate your time this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for chatting with us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you by it