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Katie Woolf spoke with Member for Solomon Luke Gosling · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Now live from Camber, Canberra. Luke Gossling, Good.
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  Speaker 2: Morning morning, Katie Luke.
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  Speaker 1: Is it the last week of parliamentary sittings this week?
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  Speaker 2: It certainly is, Yeah, just tomorrow ago and if there
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  Speaker 2: is still legislation we need to get through the Parliament,
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  Speaker 2: we may sit on Friday. But yeah, it is the
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  Speaker 2: last sitting week of what's been a very unusual and
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  Speaker 2: long year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it has been such a strange year, and I
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  Speaker 1: know that there is quite a substantial amount of legislation
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  Speaker 1: still to get through. Well that's my understanding. How have
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  Speaker 1: we gone with those with the firming up of the
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  Speaker 1: two seats for the Northern Territory. I know what passed
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  Speaker 1: the Senate, Has it gone through through the upper House
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  Speaker 1: and where are things at?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we think it's going to pass the lower house
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  Speaker 2: of the House. Yeah, it was Senate last earlier this week.
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  Speaker 2: I'm losing track now last week it's past the Senate
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  Speaker 2: and to goee those two lower House seats for the NT,
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  Speaker 2: we need to get through the House of Reps, which
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  Speaker 2: should happen this afternoon after question time. So looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to that. It's been a great effort on behalf of
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  Speaker 2: all the Territorians and pulled together from all sides of
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  Speaker 2: politics to ensure that we have proper representation. So it'll
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  Speaker 2: be great to have that win for democracy for the territory.
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  Speaker 1: Oh good stuff. So hopefully pass through the Lower House
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what we're told. So we're planning on that
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, we're going to have just talked to some
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  Speaker 2: of the to Senator Sam McMahon and some of the
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  Speaker 2: Nationals this morning who were great assistance to us in
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  Speaker 2: securing that their representation. And when that gets through, we
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  Speaker 2: might just have a small territory toast.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I reckon that's a good idea. What else is
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  Speaker 1: on the agenda? What other legislation needs to get through
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  Speaker 1: Parliament before the year's end.
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  Speaker 2: There's some legislations, industrial relations legislation that we're talking to
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  Speaker 2: the government about at the moment. So what we want
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  Speaker 2: to see is that any changes that are made in
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  Speaker 2: terms of new laws that they're going to create secure jobs,
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  Speaker 2: well paid jobs. And we're just asking the government to
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  Speaker 2: prove that the changes that they want to make is
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  Speaker 2: going to sort of pass that test. And when there's
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  Speaker 2: also some other legislation in the Parliament. I've been giving
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  Speaker 2: quite a few speeches today on a range of things
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  Speaker 2: including food security for the communities. Obviously it's a big
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  Speaker 2: issue for some of our communities. There's now going to
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  Speaker 2: be an AH Triple C investigation into some of those
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  Speaker 2: exorbitant prices that people in communities are paying for their
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  Speaker 2: food from time to time. But also I guess the
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  Speaker 2: stranded Ossie's issue is something that we continue to apply
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  Speaker 2: pressure to the Prime Minister, hoping that he'll know that
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  Speaker 2: he's serious about trying to get as many Aussie's home
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  Speaker 2: before Christmas as possible, even if they are in nice
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  Speaker 2: in quarantine during Christmas Day. I'm sure a lot of
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  Speaker 2: those stranded Ossies would rather be in quarantine in Australia
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  Speaker 2: on Christmas Day than stuck overseas. And obviously every chance
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  Speaker 2: I get reinforcing to people down here in can with
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  Speaker 2: a vital role of the Northern Territory and how its
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  Speaker 2: springs facility continues to play.
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  Speaker 1: And Luke, was there going to be this week? Was
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  Speaker 1: there going to actually be that legislation either debated or
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  Speaker 1: pass through around foreign investment, particularly when we talk about China.
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  Speaker 1: Was that due to happen this week?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? What was Katie and we're going to get an
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  Speaker 2: update from that later today as to where we're up
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  Speaker 2: with that, And we still know clearer about that. The
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  Speaker 2: government wants to go after the Victorian government's Belden Road
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  Speaker 2: Initiative program, but we're not that much clearer on what
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  Speaker 2: their view is around other agreements that have been established
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  Speaker 2: between between state and territory governments with foreign governments. So
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  Speaker 2: and one example obviously being the Port of Darwin and
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  Speaker 2: what's happening there. But I've been having some great meetings
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  Speaker 2: with ASPI, which is great organization, the Austrained Strategic Policy Institution.
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  Speaker 2: I've been doing some writing for them at about encouraging
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  Speaker 2: everyone to think big as far as resetting the Northern
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  Speaker 2: Australia's national security posture and the obvious place that Darwin
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  Speaker 2: plays in that. What we're worried is that there's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a bit of a slide to the right
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  Speaker 2: on as in a bit of a delayed to some
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  Speaker 2: of the funding coming through for those big infrastructure projects
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  Speaker 2: make really that center of that center of gravity for
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  Speaker 2: operations in our region. So we're just continuing to speak
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  Speaker 2: with the government about that and make sure that any
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  Speaker 2: changes to what's happening in either foreign relations or defense spending.
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  Speaker 2: Do not disadvantage the territory and in fact quite the opposite,
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  Speaker 2: see us moving forward. Yeah, we spend more business for
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  Speaker 2: our local territory businesses.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Are you I mean, are you concerned at this point, Luke,
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  Speaker 1: I know that you mentioned that deal that had been
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  Speaker 1: signed or the one Belt, one Road initiative that had
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  Speaker 1: been signed by the Victorian government and Chinese authorities or government.
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  Speaker 1: Are you concerned that you know that we've got any
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  Speaker 1: kind of agreements in place here in the Northern Territory
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  Speaker 1: which could be impacted and would that be good or
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  Speaker 1: a bad thing?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it certainly needs to be investigated, cad is my
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  Speaker 2: view and clear at this stage what the government's appetite
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  Speaker 2: for that is. We want to make sure that we're
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  Speaker 2: upholding our role as a strategic and critically important national
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  Speaker 2: infrastructure such as the port. I don't have any issues
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  Speaker 2: with the way that Lanbridge is running that facility, and
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  Speaker 2: in fact have been talking to them about some of
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  Speaker 2: the supply chain initiatives that they want to see come
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  Speaker 2: to fruition. However, it is incumbent on the federal government
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  Speaker 2: of the day to be consistent throughout the nation and
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  Speaker 2: if they're looking into Victoria, they need to look into us. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be ensuring that the territories and disadvantage though, and
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  Speaker 2: if there's any requirement for changing the current the relationships
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  Speaker 2: and the contracts that exist, that the Federal and takes
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  Speaker 2: responsibility for these issues. And it's not to the detriment
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  Speaker 2: of the Northern territory, because as we all know, Katie,
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  Speaker 2: it's not a matter of us going capin and to
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  Speaker 2: Canberra as a matter of Camber realizing our strategic significance
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  Speaker 2: and funding it for the good of the nation.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Luke Gosling, we are going to have to leave
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  Speaker 1: it there this morning, but we might try and catch
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  Speaker 1: up with you again next week once parliament's all done
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  Speaker 1: in Dustin for the year. I always appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having a quick chat with us today.
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  Speaker 2: Good on you're Katie, and thanks for your support of
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  Speaker 2: a fair outcome for veterans and their families. With the
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  Speaker 2: outcomes of the Brandon Inquiry, it's been really important to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that we really think about the effects of
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  Speaker 2: these sorts of recommendations.
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  Speaker 1: So thanks again, Luke Gosling. Always good to chat with you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your time.