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Member for Braitling with a Josh Burgoyne CLP parliament preview on 360 with Katie Woolf · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Joining me on the line right now is a member
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  Speaker 1: for Braitling and also the opposition whip, Joshua Burgoing. Good
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  Speaker 1: morning to you, Josh.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Katie, Good morning to your listeners.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time this morning, Josh. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: we've just finished an interview with the Health Minister Natasha Files.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure whether you heard much of that, but
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  Speaker 1: there is no doubt at this point in time there
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  Speaker 1: are some serious concerns when it comes to our health
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  Speaker 1: system and a lot of people have been in contact
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  Speaker 1: with us over the last week or two about some
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  Speaker 1: of those concerns. Josh. Is this something that's being raised
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  Speaker 1: with the opposition out in the community right now?
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  Speaker 2: It certainly is, Katy. I mean we know that there
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  Speaker 2: have been three code yellows basically, you know, in this
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  Speaker 2: last twelve month alone. It's just it's getting to the
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  Speaker 2: point now where people are thinking, well, if we do
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  Speaker 2: have and we don't want there to be a COVID Outdack,
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  Speaker 2: how are we going to deal when we already have
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  Speaker 2: critical bed shortages in Royal Dalen Hospital now And this
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  Speaker 2: is something you know, we need to get sorted. That
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  Speaker 2: story that you spoke about earlier about you know, someone
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  Speaker 2: that was unwell being turned away. These are terrible stories
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  Speaker 2: that we're hearing about and we do not want this
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  Speaker 2: to continue to happen. So it's so important that we
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  Speaker 2: put pressure on the government. You know, right before last
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  Speaker 2: year's election, they splashed you know, three hundred or have
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  Speaker 2: them many millions of dollars on the home improvements gain.
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  Speaker 2: This is our health system we're talking about. We need
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that you know, the absolute best people
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  Speaker 2: are there, and I'm sure the best people are there,
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  Speaker 2: but we need to make sure we have plenty of
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  Speaker 2: health professionals that are here in the Northern Territory and
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  Speaker 2: plenty of beds to be able to put sick people
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  Speaker 2: there well.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the thing at this point, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're being told that obviously those mental health beds, we
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  Speaker 1: need more of those, but also when you talk about
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  Speaker 1: the beds for aged care and for dementia. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: know that the Health Minister on the show on Friday
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  Speaker 1: during the week that was revealed that there is provisional
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  Speaker 1: funding for an additional sixty beads sixty age care beads,
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  Speaker 1: but she has just can firmed with us on the
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  Speaker 1: show that the reality is there are a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years away.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is you know, down in our springs
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  Speaker 2: we're I'm from, we have basically Old Time's facility that
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  Speaker 2: now cannot take people in because they have actually been
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  Speaker 2: unable to pass some of their latest checks and balances.
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  Speaker 2: So now when we have old people that basically need
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  Speaker 2: to go into care in other springs, they won't be
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  Speaker 2: able to go to the Old Tim's facility. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: some of those people will end up in hospital. And
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  Speaker 2: this is the crisis that we have at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: There's things happening all over the place. We need to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that we get these under control because obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if there are outbreaks, if the worst should happen,
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  Speaker 2: which again we certainly do not want that to happen,
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  Speaker 2: we need to know that we have a health system
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  Speaker 2: that is up for the task.
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  Speaker 1: Josh, what do you reckon needs to be happening here?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, on Thursday last week, we had David little
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  Speaker 1: Proud on the show, obviously a member of the federal government,
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  Speaker 1: and he said that, you know the reality is that
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  Speaker 1: the territory government needs to be focusing and spending their
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  Speaker 1: money more wisely. When it comes to health. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: we actually know that when you talk about age care beds,
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  Speaker 1: they are funded by the federal government.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly. Look, and this is this tit for tab
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  Speaker 2: that we quite often get to. I did hear the
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  Speaker 2: President of the AMA have said that we need one
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  Speaker 2: hundred extra beds. We're hearing about things happening out at
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  Speaker 2: Palmston Hospital where basically you know, we're having services moved
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  Speaker 2: from that too, Royal da and Hospital. The key here
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  Speaker 2: is is being able to get and try to entice
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  Speaker 2: health professionals into the territory so that we can make
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  Speaker 2: sure that we can staff all of our hospitals adequately.
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  Speaker 2: And I think what's happening at the moment is that
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  Speaker 2: unfortunately we're under the pump. We know that the Center
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  Speaker 2: for National Resilience has taken people away from our health system.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that I've heard done.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah said that on the show as much.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly right. So we now have this instance where
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  Speaker 2: you know, unfortunately we are understaffed in some very vital
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  Speaker 2: areas and we need to make sure we're doing everything
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  Speaker 2: we can such an important area to entice people from
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  Speaker 2: down south come up to the territory. Work here become
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  Speaker 2: a health professional, because you know, this is what we need.
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  Speaker 2: We need to make sure that we have adequate staffing
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  Speaker 2: and that the beds that are acquired are there for
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  Speaker 2: people in our communities.
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  Speaker 1: Josh is that this is obviously an area which the
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  Speaker 1: opposition is going to be focusing on today in Parliament.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, certainly this and crime. I literally just got
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  Speaker 2: off the phone and this kind of does hark back
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  Speaker 2: to what you're talking about when you talk about hospital
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  Speaker 2: bed Someone rang me up this morning who said that
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  Speaker 2: their family was involved in what can only be described
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  Speaker 2: as an offense over the weekend where they were out
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  Speaker 2: at night, they were assaulted by other people. They went
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  Speaker 2: to hospital, and they've now been basically told that they
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  Speaker 2: were fine to leave hospital. That person is still very unwell,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm in the process of now having to find
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  Speaker 2: out exactly what's going on in regards to that incident
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  Speaker 2: where we've had someone that sounds like they've been king
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  Speaker 2: hit out on Saturday Saturday night. They've gone to hospital,
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  Speaker 2: they've been told you're fine to go home, and now
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  Speaker 2: that person's in a in a state. So I'm literally,
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  Speaker 2: right before I got on here with you, was talking
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  Speaker 2: to that person's relative. So this is so important. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Crime is another huge thing, huge thing that you know
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  Speaker 2: when I'm in Ala Springs, it's something that people raise
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  Speaker 2: with me all the time. And it's again another thing
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  Speaker 2: along with the health crisis that we're going to be
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  Speaker 2: talking about this week in parliament.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that they are both issues that really
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  Speaker 1: do need to be focused on. I mean, even this morning,
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  Speaker 1: the Territory Police have said that they're calling for witnesses
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  Speaker 1: to an assault in which two men in Alice Springs
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  Speaker 1: were left with serious injuries. Apparently happened on Saturday night,
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  Speaker 1: two men aged forty five and forty seven years old.
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  Speaker 1: We're traveling inbound on Gap Road near the twenty four
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  Speaker 1: hour store there where it's alleged there was a near
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  Speaker 1: miss with another vehicle, a black hold and Commodore, and
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  Speaker 1: a verbal altercation commenced between those drivers. Now, the driver
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  Speaker 1: of the Commodore conducted a U turn and it's alleged
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  Speaker 1: that he armed himself with a large blunt metal object
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  Speaker 1: and then engage the occupants of the Navara, assaulting both
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  Speaker 1: of them and smashing the front passenger window of the
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  Speaker 1: vehicle before fleeing. The scene on foot. I mean, that
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  Speaker 1: is horrifying stuff in Ala Springs.
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  Speaker 2: It certainly is. And this is what's just shocking. It's
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  Speaker 2: hard to keep up with all the incidents that are
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  Speaker 2: occurring on a daily basis in our town. And it's
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  Speaker 2: so I went in to speak to a business owner
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  Speaker 2: the other day who had had a car plow into
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  Speaker 2: the front of his business. I'd only just received a
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  Speaker 2: Fense statistics that showed that on his street crime has
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  Speaker 2: doubled in the last year, and he literally has a
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  Speaker 2: car plow through his front business. It's going to cost
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  Speaker 2: him or the insurance twenty thousand dollars now to get
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  Speaker 2: that fixed. And the poor bloke when you go in
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  Speaker 2: and speak to him, you know, he goes. I think
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  Speaker 2: he's on his third insurer. This is something that businesses
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  Speaker 2: are having to deal with, let alone individuals that go
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  Speaker 2: out at night and are now being attacked. It's shocking
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  Speaker 2: to see that this is becoming all too common occur
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  Speaker 2: in our community. And we really need to see a
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  Speaker 2: change of tactics from this government when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: keeping those safe in our community.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how do you reckon we get there, though, Josh,
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  Speaker 1: because it seems at the moment, there's that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it like it needs to almost be a bipartisan approach
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  Speaker 1: when you talk about some of these major issues that
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  Speaker 1: we've gotten in Northern Territory right now, we've got to
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  Speaker 1: sort of, you know, forget our political lines to some
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  Speaker 1: degree and just try and work together as territorians to
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  Speaker 1: make an impact and make some change.
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  Speaker 2: And I tell you what, Katie, that's where I'm at.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not even asking for airy fairy stuff. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: asking for the government to do what they promise they do.
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  Speaker 2: In June of last year, they brought out a flashy
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  Speaker 2: press release saying they'll be clear and immediate consequences for
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  Speaker 2: repeat offenders where they will be cleaning graffiti, clearing weeds
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  Speaker 2: and landscaping. We're still yet to see that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: imagine going down the street and seeing someone that have
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  Speaker 2: been involved in a crime basically having to payback their
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  Speaker 2: debt to society. I think that would go a long
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  Speaker 2: way to showing people that this government is serious about crime.
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  Speaker 2: But until we actually see them do what they've promised,
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  Speaker 2: they've actually said they do in the past, they haven't
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  Speaker 2: even done that. Let's get to that point. So we're
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  Speaker 2: not asking you to change the world. We're just asking
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  Speaker 2: you to do what you said you would do on
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  Speaker 2: the twentieth of June last year, right before the election.
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  Speaker 2: Funnily enough, and we're still months a year, a year
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  Speaker 2: on from that, we haven't seen it an Unfortunately, crime
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  Speaker 2: is still a huge, you know, something that we're dealing
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  Speaker 2: with on a daily basis right across the territory.
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  Speaker 1: Josh, just very quickly before I let you go. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: yesterday we learned that we have got another positive case.
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  Speaker 1: We've got that positive case a traveler a northern territory
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  Speaker 1: and coming back to Darwin obviously from Newcastle who's tested
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  Speaker 1: positive to COVID nineteen. We know that those twenty four
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  Speaker 1: close contacts have now all been contacted. The government is
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  Speaker 1: also in contact with the other I think it was
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  Speaker 1: about one hundred who were also casual contacts, and they're
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  Speaker 1: working through all of those to make sure that there's
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  Speaker 1: been no community transmission. Do you feel tell us so
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  Speaker 1: the territory governments managed this one a little bit better
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  Speaker 1: given the fact that we're not all in lockdown.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it was a real feeling of deja vu
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  Speaker 2: for the opposition where were yes, we were in win
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  Speaker 2: meeting yesterday, which is exactly where we were in in
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  Speaker 2: the August sittings when we found out that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we were going to be going into lockdown now. And
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  Speaker 2: I think it's so important when we're in a global pandemic,
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  Speaker 2: it's crucial that the government communicates clearly and consistently with territories.
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  Speaker 2: That's so important. And I think yesterday, as you pointed out,
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  Speaker 2: empty Health, we're kind of saying one thing about when
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  Speaker 2: he arrived and all these it's just so crucial that
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  Speaker 2: we hear from the cocho in these instances. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we roll out the Chief Health Officer, he gives one clear,
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  Speaker 2: precise thing of exactly what's happening, and we make sure
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  Speaker 2: that everyone all the information in regards to that is
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  Speaker 2: very accurate, because obviously yesterday you're right, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: rumor mill was running a bit wild earlier and we
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  Speaker 2: didn't really know what was happening. It was good that
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  Speaker 2: the Health Minister did come out and say we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to go in the lockdown. But yeah, there were
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  Speaker 2: still a few questions and I heard you speaking this
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  Speaker 2: morning just clarifying a few of those things. Because it's
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  Speaker 2: so important that everyone feels like the information that's been
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  Speaker 2: put out there is very clear and precise.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, just finally, what do you think about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: this discussion about those will the vaccine technology or the
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  Speaker 1: different technology that we're going to need to be able
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  Speaker 1: to use, you know, to enter different locations and businesses.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's a bit of a passport. What do
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  Speaker 1: you reckon about that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I heard the chief minutes this morning on ABC
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  Speaker 2: Radio who was asked, oh, well, what happens if you
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  Speaker 2: take a screenshot of someone that's been given the all
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  Speaker 2: clear and basically show that every time you walk into
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  Speaker 2: a thing, And I don't think it's quite been thought through,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and that's why people have so many questions.
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  Speaker 2: He kind of didn't have a really good answer for that.
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  Speaker 2: So it's so important going forward, you know, obviously, go
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  Speaker 2: out there get vaccinated. That that's going to be the
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  Speaker 2: clear message for everyone. That's how we get out of
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  Speaker 2: this and we can go and see our family at
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  Speaker 2: Christmas time. But we do need to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: the plan going forward again with the opposition of sort
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  Speaker 2: of briefing just so we can be brought up to
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  Speaker 2: speed on everything that's happening. This is changing by the hour,
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  Speaker 2: if not by the day, and we all feel like
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of information out there and
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  Speaker 2: we want to make sure that when we speak to
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  Speaker 2: people in the community, we're giving them clear and precise
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  Speaker 2: information about what's occurring.
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  Speaker 1: So well, Josh Burgoyne, we always appreciate your time. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for having a chat with us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me on Cake