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

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  Speaker 1: If you want to know what's happening on the local
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  Speaker 1: political landscape, Katie Wolf has it covered on three sixty.
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  Speaker 2: Every one is listening Mix one oh four point.
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  Speaker 1: Nine, and we have got so many messages coming through
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  Speaker 1: this morning on the text line zero four one eight
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  Speaker 1: nine five seven three six nine. More than happy to
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  Speaker 1: take your calls as well if you've got something on
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  Speaker 1: your mind. Eight nine four one one oh four nine.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a message here from Mark in TWII and
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  Speaker 1: it says, Hi, Katie, my wife and I had a
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  Speaker 1: meeting at a business on Kavanagh Street last week. The non
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  Speaker 1: retail business actually locks their door, so you have to
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  Speaker 1: knock first and then they let you in. I asked
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  Speaker 1: why they locked the door and was told the reason
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  Speaker 1: is to protect staff and customers from well itinerants who
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  Speaker 1: come in and threaten staff or try to steal things.
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  Speaker 1: This is not an isolated case and just goes to
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  Speaker 1: show counsel and government are not doing enough to look
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  Speaker 1: after the community, says Mark in TWI. Oh look there's
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  Speaker 1: another one here. It sees the way Michael Gonna danced
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  Speaker 1: around every question you asked him. This momalling was laughable.
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  Speaker 1: He would win dancing with the Stars, says that text.
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  Speaker 1: We've got so many messages. I will get to all
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  Speaker 1: of those. But joining me on the line right now
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  Speaker 1: is the Federal Member for Solomon Luke Gosling. Good morning
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  Speaker 1: to you, Luke.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning Katie Luke.
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  Speaker 1: Firsty, we know that job Keeper obviously ended yesterday, the
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  Speaker 1: Chief Minister Michael Gunner telling us on the show earlier
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  Speaker 1: this morning, still around two thousand businesses as of the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of March, Northern Territory businesses that were still reliant
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  Speaker 1: on job Keeper around seven and a half thousand jobs.
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  Speaker 1: There's no doubt that this is going to have a
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  Speaker 1: big impact on those businesses still reliant on job Keeper.
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  Speaker 3: And he's going to have a massive impact on some
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  Speaker 3: of those businesses. Katie. As you know, you've had Glenn
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  Speaker 3: on this morning, but a lot of our top end
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  Speaker 3: small businesses that are connected with the tourism industry in
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  Speaker 3: some way, shape or form, obviously a very sad day
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  Speaker 3: for them. Is really frustrating. I've spent the last two
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  Speaker 3: weeks down in Canberra just calling on them to consider
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  Speaker 3: a targeted approach. We all know the job Keeper couldn't
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  Speaker 3: go on indefinitely, but they kept saying it was a
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  Speaker 3: scalable wage subsidy program, and it is and it couldn't
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  Speaker 3: go on forever, and it can't, but we put the
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  Speaker 3: we put the proposal to them. But if we can
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  Speaker 3: assist some businesses to get through to the role out
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  Speaker 3: of the vaccine and to the dry season, even at
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  Speaker 3: least a couple more months, would have made a big difference.
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  Speaker 3: So it is a shame that the federal government's decided
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  Speaker 3: not to do that. And just thinking of all those
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  Speaker 3: businesses today and hope to try and can really get
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  Speaker 3: around them, and let's save as many jobs as we
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  Speaker 3: can through through working with those businesses.
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  Speaker 1: Look, do you think things like the half priced flights
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  Speaker 1: obviously that the federal tourism Minister Dante, do you think
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  Speaker 1: things like that are really going to go far enough
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  Speaker 1: in terms of supporting our tourism sector. I, like everyone, Cadie,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to be helpful.
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  Speaker 3: I am concerned that it's a lot of spin. When
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  Speaker 3: you have a look at the initial announcement that they made,
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  Speaker 3: it was eight hundred thousand fares around the country one
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  Speaker 3: point two billion dollars, but that worked out at fifteen
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  Speaker 3: hundred dollars subsidy per flight. So that means the total
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  Speaker 3: ticket costs was three grand per flight. So what are
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  Speaker 3: we doing here? Was a subsidization program for business class flights.
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand any of this really, and it sounds
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  Speaker 3: like Dante and doesn't understand it either. I think they
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  Speaker 3: got their I think they got their headlines that they
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  Speaker 3: wanted to try and make it seem like they were
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  Speaker 3: going to be doing something after they finished Job Keeper.
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  Speaker 3: And we obviously all fought you in particular Cadie, to
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  Speaker 3: for Darwin to be included. And we're just waiting now
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  Speaker 3: for some detail to give people some confidence that this
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  Speaker 3: is actually real.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I guess that's the thing, isn't it. The
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  Speaker 1: Devil's always in the detail, And it's going to come
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  Speaker 1: down to those bums on seats and people actually coming
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  Speaker 1: to the Northern Territory. And you know that is really
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  Speaker 1: the only way that this is going to positively impact
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  Speaker 1: the tourism sector is if people actually come to the territory.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and everyone, I'm sure all Territorians, all your listeners
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  Speaker 3: are talking to friends and family down south and saying
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  Speaker 3: that's going to be a rip of drises in book.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm worried too that with this this subsidy program
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  Speaker 3: that the federal government's talking about, if it's not real,
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  Speaker 3: people might hold off on making those bookings until it
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  Speaker 3: is real, or waiting to see if it is real.
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  Speaker 3: But we should be encouraging people to come up for
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  Speaker 3: a cracker dry season. Chatting with Don from Southern Cross
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  Speaker 3: motor Bike Tours the other day and they're not seeing
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  Speaker 3: anywhere near the bookings that they'd had previously. So there's
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  Speaker 3: heaps of people that we all know down south. I'd
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  Speaker 3: love to come up, jump on a bike and head
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  Speaker 3: out into the outback, head into the beautiful territory to
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  Speaker 3: see a bit of it, out to the Coburg Peninsula
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  Speaker 3: or wherever. So yeah, let's just try to encourage. We
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  Speaker 3: can't depend on government. We've seen that with job keep rending,
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  Speaker 3: so let's do everything we can to get to.
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  Speaker 1: Us here now, Luke, one of the things that you've
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  Speaker 1: been really calling for for quite a long period of time.
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  Speaker 1: You and I have spoken about this on so many occasions,
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  Speaker 1: and I see on the weekend in Canberra the discussion
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  Speaker 1: is heated up yet again. It is those calls for
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  Speaker 1: a Royal commission into veteran suicide.
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  Speaker 2: Where are things at?
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  Speaker 3: It's a good question, Katie. I think again, the verdicts
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  Speaker 3: out on this one because the Prime Minister won't himself
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  Speaker 3: commit that there is going to be a royal commission
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  Speaker 3: in a veterans suicide. I thought what they did when
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  Speaker 3: they'll face with the massive calls from the veterans community,
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  Speaker 3: the families and most politicians even from their own side,
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  Speaker 3: is when there was a motion that called through the
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  Speaker 3: Parliament that called for a veteran's royal commission, the Prime
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  Speaker 3: Minister said, we're not going to stand in the way
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  Speaker 3: of the motion now. He said that because he knew
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  Speaker 3: that if it went to an actual vote, that there
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  Speaker 3: would be a motion that would be passed and that
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  Speaker 3: would have a lot of his own people crossing the
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  Speaker 3: floor and saying yes, we need a royal commission. So
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  Speaker 3: he avoided, he avoided having a vote on it, but
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  Speaker 3: then didn't back that up and say we're going to
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  Speaker 3: have a royal commission. So the juries still out and
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  Speaker 3: the veterans community are saying, well, you know, where's the detail,
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  Speaker 3: When does it start? When does the consultation process start
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  Speaker 3: for the same of reference, And so they waiting for that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And so then on the weekend I did note
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  Speaker 1: that they're, you know, there there was parents of you know,
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  Speaker 1: of of some of our veterans whose lives have you know,
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  Speaker 1: they have been taken, and they were really again trying
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  Speaker 1: to push for this.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess for me, I sort of.
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  Speaker 1: Thought to myself, do we need to waste money on
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  Speaker 1: a royal commission? But then when you've got all of
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  Speaker 1: these people who are saying, well, hang on, we do
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  Speaker 1: actually need to do this. We are losing far too
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  Speaker 1: many of our soldiers, you know, to suicide, it makes
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  Speaker 1: me sit up and go, well, hang on a second,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we actually do need to have a royal commission here.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to listen to what these families are saying.
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  Speaker 3: We absolutely do need a royal commission Codie. And the
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  Speaker 3: region is because even though the overwhelming majority of veterans Navy, Army,
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  Speaker 3: Air Force leave the forces and go on to have
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  Speaker 3: fantastic lives, get out into the private sector and do
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  Speaker 3: really well, far too many, at least eighteen already in
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  Speaker 3: the first couple of months of this year, dying by suicide.
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  Speaker 3: So that is a massive issue and we just need
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  Speaker 3: to come to grips with it, talk to all the
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  Speaker 3: experts and get some recommendations that the current National Commissioner
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  Speaker 3: doesn't provide, so that they have to be implemented then
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  Speaker 3: by government.
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  Speaker 2: So we are running out of time. But I do
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  Speaker 2: want to ask you.
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  Speaker 1: I know that there's also calls for the Purple Heart
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  Speaker 1: equivalent for soldiers killed or injured in action.
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  Speaker 2: What exactly does this mean.
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  Speaker 3: There's an inquiry at the moment into how we should
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  Speaker 3: acknowledge those that have either been killed in service, killed
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  Speaker 3: in action during conflict, or wounded in service or injured
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  Speaker 3: in service. We know that the percentage of those that
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  Speaker 3: are medically discharged from the military that do commit suicide
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  Speaker 3: is huge, so we want to acknowledge those people who
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  Speaker 3: have joined up to serve their country and get injured.
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  Speaker 3: We also want to ignore knowledge people who join up
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  Speaker 3: go away to serve our country and don't come home.
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  Speaker 3: So we're pushing at the moment Ray Ray and Pam
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  Speaker 3: Palmer at in Parmesan is very much in the forefront
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  Speaker 3: of this push to get that service that Olderman's sacrifice
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  Speaker 3: to the country acknowledged by the government. So there's more
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  Speaker 3: to come on that, But there's an article I've just
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  Speaker 3: put up on my Facebook that explains a bit more
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  Speaker 3: about it. And thanks again for your interest in these
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  Speaker 3: very important issues about our serving people. Katie.
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  Speaker 1: Oh mate, I just think it is so incredibly important
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  Speaker 1: and please keep us up to date with how you
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  Speaker 1: go with that one.
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  Speaker 2: It's something you know.
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  Speaker 1: I know that we've got a lot of our serving
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  Speaker 1: members and those that have retired who listen to the
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  Speaker 1: show and they'll be they'll be pleased to hear that
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  Speaker 1: this issue is certainly are not being forgotten about.
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  Speaker 2: It's something that's still being pushed for.
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  Speaker 1: So please keep us up to date whenever there is
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  Speaker 1: any movement low I certainly.
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  Speaker 3: Will do, Katie. And it's not only about the members,
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  Speaker 3: it's about their families as well, and we want to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that they're ignowed and they're supported through the battle.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, spot on. Thank you. Luke Gosling there Labour's member
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  Speaker 2: for Solomon