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Katie Woolf spoke with Health Minister Natasha Fyles · 360 with Katie Woolf

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Speaker 1: Joining us on the line right now. To kick off
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Speaker 1: this morning is the Health Minister Natasha Files. Good morning
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Speaker 1: to your minister.
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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie, good morning.
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Speaker 3: Listen now, minister.
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Speaker 1: Firstly, are we on track to lift these restrictions in
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Speaker 1: Darwin and Catherine on Thursday at midday?
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Speaker 2: Territorians have done a great job following the rules. We
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Speaker 2: saw the huge numbers of people putting themselves out to
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Speaker 2: get tested. We saw people last week stopping and this
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Speaker 2: week we've seen people continue to wear masks physical distance
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Speaker 2: and so we certainly will seek the advice of our
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Speaker 2: health officials. But things are certainly looking good.
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Speaker 3: All right, Well, that is good to hear.
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Speaker 1: I know that a lot of people are going to
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Speaker 1: be pleased, you know, to have those restrictions lifted hopefully
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Speaker 1: Thursday midday, get the kids back to their sport, get
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Speaker 1: those gyms open again. On that note of the gyms,
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Speaker 1: is that something that you are going to take a
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Speaker 1: closer look at after these restrictions lift on Thursday, about
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Speaker 1: how we might be able to do things differently if
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Speaker 1: indeed we have to go back into that situation again
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Speaker 1: down the track there's a lockdown and then when you're
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Speaker 1: lifting those restrictions if gyms can actually be included as
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Speaker 1: businesses that can operate again, So Katie.
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Speaker 2: We follow the advice of our health officials and our
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Speaker 2: chief Health officer, but I do understand our people. There's
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Speaker 2: been a lot of questions around physical activity and how
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Speaker 2: important it is for people's mental health, and so we
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Speaker 2: are certainly willing to work with gyms and our chief
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Speaker 2: Health officer to look at if there is any ways
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Speaker 2: in which going forward we can try and keep some
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Speaker 2: of these services open but keep people safe. Our safety
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Speaker 2: has to come first. But certainly it's something that we've
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Speaker 2: heard from not only Jim Miners, but many in the community.
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Speaker 3: Well, that is good to hear.
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Speaker 1: I do think that you know that we need to
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Speaker 1: relook at it. I know that there was like I
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Speaker 1: understand that it is all based on the health advice,
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Speaker 1: but when you know you've got Jim owners calling into
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Speaker 1: the show yesterday saying, we just don't understand how you
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Speaker 1: can still go into a Parbora club but you're not
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Speaker 1: able to go into the gym socially distanced and disinfect
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Speaker 1: and clean equipment.
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Speaker 2: Afterwards, Katie, with more about this virus. We've learned about
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Speaker 2: how it transmits, So we're certainly always agile, and as
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Speaker 2: I said, we certainly look willing to with our health officials,
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Speaker 2: and I certainly can't give any commitments or promises, but
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Speaker 2: we're willing to work with industries across the board, including gyms,
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Speaker 2: about how we can going forward incorporate some of this
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Speaker 2: new knowledge and try and support not only businesses to
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Speaker 2: stay open but also territories. We do know how important
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Speaker 2: that is for people's mental health.
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Speaker 1: Now, Minister, how is the man who kicked off Darwin's lockdown?
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Speaker 1: Is he still in quarantine and how is that virus
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Speaker 1: tracking in him?
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Speaker 2: But Katie, obviously I need to be careful in terms
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Speaker 2: of people's private patient information, but I understand that the
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Speaker 2: individual is the one case that we have in the
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Speaker 2: territory and he remains in the care of the team
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Speaker 2: at the center of the natural residience at Howard Springs.
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Speaker 1: And do we know where he actually contracted this strain
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Speaker 1: of delta from.
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Speaker 2: Yet, so that genomics showing us that it is delta
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Speaker 2: has come back when they're working through possible scenarios of
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Speaker 2: where he's picked the virus up. But I haven't got
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Speaker 2: the latest on that, Katie, as soon as we do
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Speaker 2: have more information concerns, we'll share it with people.
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Speaker 1: Now, how is that wastewater? Is there any indication of
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Speaker 1: covidy now Darwin or Catherine catchments following on you know,
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Speaker 1: I know last week obviously we've been told the update
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Speaker 1: in that space, but is there any update this week
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Speaker 1: with the wastewater?
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Speaker 2: The Katy wastewater testing is a really important surveillance tool
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Speaker 2: now that we know that we've had coronavirus in our community,
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Speaker 2: and we did share with the community that we had
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Speaker 2: some detection of wastewater in both Darwen and Catherine. The
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Speaker 2: results that have been provided to me since then have
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Speaker 2: all been negative around that wastewater. But we'll certainly again
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Speaker 2: share with the territory, the community if we were to
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Speaker 2: have any positive wastewater and what that would mean for people.
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Speaker 2: We saw just a few weeks ago when we had
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Speaker 2: that indication in the laod Miller and it was residual
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Speaker 2: from people that had completed quarantines. Wish it. Certainly we'll
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Speaker 2: share that information people.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I guess there's now a lot of discussion nationally
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Speaker 1: about the vaccine roll out. I understand that we are
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Speaker 1: now at sixty percent for those first vaccines. When do
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Speaker 1: you anticipate that we are going to get to that
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Speaker 1: eighty percent fully vaccinated mark.
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Speaker 2: Territorians have done a great job. They have rolled up
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Speaker 2: their sleeves, they have attended vaccination appointments and Kadi, it's
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Speaker 2: a really clear message. There are appointments available right around
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Speaker 2: the Northern Territory. So if you've been thinking that there's
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Speaker 2: not enough vaccine or you're not sure if you're in
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Speaker 2: that priority group, now is the time to get vaccinated.
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Speaker 2: And as you just said, sixty percent of Territorians they've
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Speaker 2: seen more than one hundred and eighty nine thousand doses
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Speaker 2: of vaccine delivered. We are rolling out a program that
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Speaker 2: provides for right across the territory, whether it's in the
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Speaker 2: top end, Central Australia or our remote communities, to be vaccinated.
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Speaker 2: So when we hit that eighty percent mark, we'll be
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Speaker 2: dependent on Territorians coming forward to be vaccinated. We've got
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Speaker 2: plenty of supply coming through from the Commonwealth, We've got
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Speaker 2: appointments available.
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Speaker 1: There is a question from a listener wondering will fully
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Speaker 1: vaccinated Territorians receipt any incentives like being able to visit
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Speaker 1: the Southern States for Christmas.
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Speaker 2: So, Katie, that is a question we need to put
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Speaker 2: to our health officials, and as you've heard from the
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Speaker 2: Chief Minister, we need to make sure that the eighty
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Speaker 2: percent of people vaccinated is across the board. We have
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Speaker 2: a very young population in the territory, so we need
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Speaker 2: to make sure that even if we have eighty percent
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Speaker 2: of the eligible population, is that enough to protect our
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Speaker 2: broader population. These are the clinical questions, but with those
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Speaker 2: fantastic rates of vaccination, we're certainly heading in the direction
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Speaker 2: of having those conversations.
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Speaker 1: We had a lot of confusion yesterday about kids. Are
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Speaker 1: all kids eligible for the vaccine if they're over twelve?
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Speaker 2: So, Katie, children are eligible the ATAGI advice if they
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Speaker 2: are vulnerable and so the definition of that is an
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Speaker 2: underlying medical illness, if they're aboriginal, terrest rate island, or
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Speaker 2: if they have other factors that would put them at risk.
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Speaker 2: And so outside of Darwin, every child twelve to fifteen
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Speaker 2: is eligible and they can make an appointment through the
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Speaker 2: clinics or as the remin programs. Within the Darwin urban area.
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Speaker 2: It is the vulnerable children that are presently eligible, but
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Speaker 2: we are certainly looking and working with the Commonwealth around
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Speaker 2: when we will provide for all children twelve to fifteen.
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Speaker 2: We understand this is a very important cohort. Parents want
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Speaker 2: to vaccinate their kids, and when I just spoke about
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Speaker 2: the facts, the territory has such a young population, these
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Speaker 2: children being vaccinated is so important for that overall eighty
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Speaker 2: percent figure. So right now, that is the situation, but
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Speaker 2: we're working very closely to them when we can bring
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Speaker 2: on twelve to fifteen year old in the Darwin urban area.
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Speaker 1: Look, we're getting a lot of questions about this. I've
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Speaker 1: got one here. It says my fourteen year old son
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Speaker 1: has a medical condition that's not on the government least,
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Speaker 1: but he's pediatrician and immunologist recommend that he gets vaccinated.
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Speaker 1: I'm still waiting for those clinics to.
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Speaker 2: Call me back, so Katie, I can't provide individual medical advice.
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Speaker 2: Of course, I'm not a condition, and you know this
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Speaker 2: is not the appropriate place for people to get that.
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Speaker 2: We are working as quickly as we can around those appointments.
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Speaker 2: If you know, from what you've just said to me,
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Speaker 2: it sounds like they're eligible. But we certainly are working
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Speaker 2: as quickly as we can to open up Darwin. But
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Speaker 2: if people believe they are eligible, then they should head
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Speaker 2: to our website. You can make an appointment. You have
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Speaker 2: to kick the eligibility that you have got someone that
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Speaker 2: is vulnerable, and then it will allow you to make
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Speaker 2: that appointment, Katie.
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Speaker 1: So why is it then, like if somebody is if
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Speaker 1: their partner or if they are frontline workers who you know,
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Speaker 1: in whichever profession, why are they not able to get
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Speaker 1: their kids vaccinated?
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Speaker 2: So, Katie, it comes down to that definition of being
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Speaker 2: eligible and vulnerable. And so when you head to our website,
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Speaker 2: it lists for you there what would make you eligible.
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Speaker 2: But I think Katie, that people should understand we're working
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Speaker 2: as quickly as we can with the Commonwealth around how
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Speaker 2: we could open this up to all children in the
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Speaker 2: Darwin area. But if you head to that website, it
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Speaker 2: does allow you to make an appointment if you do
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Speaker 2: believe that you have a medical condition or your aboriginal
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Speaker 2: interroith right.
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Speaker 1: Islander Another questions just come through from a listener, Hi, Katie.
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Speaker 1: After your show yesterday, I contacted a GP to see
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Speaker 1: if I could get my fourteen year old daughter to
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Speaker 1: get vaccinated. I was told that they'd only do it
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Speaker 1: if she was Indigenous or had a medical condition. I
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Speaker 1: explained that I was a frontline worker that goes out
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Speaker 1: to Howard Springs Facility to transport patients to Royal dar
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Speaker 1: And Hospital and then back again. I also explained that
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Speaker 1: there was a lady on the show yesterday who obviously
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Speaker 1: wanted to get her children vaccinated, who was in the
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Speaker 1: same position. This person says she'd like to protect her family,
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Speaker 1: and her daughter wants it as well. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: just like I suppose there's so many in the community
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Speaker 1: right now who actually do want to get their kids vaccinated,
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Speaker 1: particularly those that are frontline workers. Why not just open
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Speaker 1: it up to everybody if there is that hesitancy from others.
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Speaker 2: So, Katie, it is fantastic that people are considering this.
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Speaker 2: They're doing their research and they want their family members
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Speaker 2: to be vaccinated. We do need to follow that advice
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Speaker 2: and those procedures. But what I can say is we're
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Speaker 2: working very closely to open the availability up and broaden
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Speaker 2: that category. The final decision hasn't been made yet, and
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Speaker 2: right now it is if you are eligible under those
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Speaker 2: categories of vulnerability with medical illness or being aboriginal trothtraate Islander,
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Speaker 2: you can get the vaccine. So we're certainly hearing these comments,
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Speaker 2: and I think that people should understand that we're working
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Speaker 2: as quickly as we can with our health professionals and
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Speaker 2: the Commonwealth to ascertain what we can do considering that
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Speaker 2: we have so many people eager to get that vaccination.
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Speaker 1: So it sounds like it's not actually your decision. It's
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Speaker 1: a decision of the federal government.
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Speaker 3: Is that right, Katie.
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Speaker 2: It's a combination. It's a decision of a targeting and
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Speaker 2: so they have made the decision that vulnerable children twelve
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Speaker 2: to fifteen can receive the vaccinate. The common wealths provide
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Speaker 2: the vaccine to us, and we've got plenty of supply
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Speaker 2: of that vaccine. And then it's in terms of the territory.
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Speaker 2: We have our public health officials who work with our
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Speaker 2: Chief Health Officer around these decisions. So people should understand
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Speaker 2: we are looking at this very genuinely as quickly as
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Speaker 2: we can, but we do need to make sure that
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Speaker 2: we follow the advice and the protocols. But it is
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Speaker 2: really pleasing to hear the amount of families talking about
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Speaker 2: wanting to get their children vaccinated. It's a big decision,
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Speaker 2: but vaccinations do save lives, and we are working as
10:30
Speaker 2: quickly as we can to respond to that.
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Speaker 1: So at this point in time, if I can just
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Speaker 1: make it really clear those for the residents of Darwin,
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Speaker 1: because we know if you're in the Greater Darwin region
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Speaker 1: or regional parts of the Northern Territory, you can take
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Speaker 1: your kids to get vaccinated. But for Darwin at this
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Speaker 1: point in time, unless you have an underlying medical condition
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Speaker 1: which is on the list of prescribed medical conditions, or
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Speaker 1: unless you're Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander, you're not actually able
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Speaker 1: to get that vaccine yet.
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Speaker 2: The Katie, it's very similar to with adults we had
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Speaker 2: outside of Dune, and we had different criteria. We collapse
11:08
Speaker 2: those phases because we knew that we had a vulnerable
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Speaker 2: population and so I expect something very similar to happen,
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Speaker 2: the same as with adults as with kids. But we
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Speaker 2: just appreciate people giving us a little bit more time.
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Speaker 2: We're working through a number of factors before that decision
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Speaker 2: can be finalized.
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Speaker 1: All right, We'll pump through these last questions because there
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Speaker 1: is a lot. We're just getting so much listener interaction though.
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Speaker 1: This morning, one caller just wants to know when over
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Speaker 1: sixties are going to be eligible for Pizer.
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Speaker 2: So Katy, that again would be a question for the Commonwealth.
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Speaker 2: Presently over sixties are eligible for the Astrozenica vaccine, but
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Speaker 2: there has certainly been some commentary and discussion at a
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Speaker 2: national level around whether people can receive Viser. But what
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Speaker 2: I can say is that the virus is present in
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Speaker 2: the Australian community and so we've seen that threat last
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Speaker 2: week with a lockdown here in the territory. Please get vaccinated.
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Speaker 2: These are all all vaccines that have been approved, rigorously
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Speaker 2: tested and if you're over sixty, the astronem if the
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Speaker 2: vaccine is safe and effective for you to get. So
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Speaker 2: please don't wait hoping that you can get Visor, because
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Speaker 2: sadly in the meantime we may see the virus coming
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Speaker 2: to our community and you've missed your opportunity to protect
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Speaker 2: yourself and you'll loved one.
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Speaker 3: Okay, Minister, Just very quickly on the health front.
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Speaker 1: Last week when we spoke, you said that the demand
12:21
Speaker 1: on Royal Darwin Hospital has been high. We're in code
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Speaker 1: yellow just weeks ago. How is the hospital going right
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Speaker 1: now when it comes to the number of beds and
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Speaker 1: having enough to Katie.
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Speaker 2: I'm out here at Rozoan Hospital. Presently the hospital is
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Speaker 2: still very busy, but we have had an extraordinary effort
12:37
Speaker 2: from all of our stuff, from our PCAs, from those
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Speaker 2: people that support our clinical nurses, doctors and allied health professionals.
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Speaker 2: But it is incredibly busy hospital. We're not saying if
12:47
Speaker 2: you're unwell, don't come to hospital. If you are feeling
12:50
Speaker 2: that you need to receive emergency care, please come. But
12:53
Speaker 2: if you can go to your GP, if you can
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Speaker 2: use your pharmacists to seek that medical advice, please consider.
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Speaker 2: But we are working through what we can do into
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Speaker 2: the longer term to manage the bed capacity at Royd
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Speaker 2: Daland Hospital. But our team out here responded and at
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Speaker 2: the Palmestan Regional Hospital, the hospitals work together very well.
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Speaker 2: They put in place those internal mechanisms to keep our
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Speaker 2: patients safe and cope with those pressures. And the code
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Speaker 2: yellow has been lifted and it was listed earlier and
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Speaker 2: expected because of the strong response from our health staff.
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Speaker 2: But it is incredibly busy hospital and takes a lot
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Speaker 2: of effort, but we're working on those longer term plans.
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Speaker 3: Now, what about that renal ward at Palmerston.
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Speaker 2: Is it back opened, so, Katie, the renal Ward at
13:34
Speaker 2: Palmerston had a plumbing maintenance issue and it's due to
13:37
Speaker 2: be opened this week. I haven't had a final update
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Speaker 2: if it is open, but I'm happy to seek that
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Speaker 2: advice off there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be keen to find out exactly where we're
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Speaker 3: at with that. Now.
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Speaker 1: Another issue which isn't going away is that of the
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Speaker 1: twelve million dollar grandstand grant. We know the Darwin Turf
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Speaker 1: Club is tonight expected to have their meeting to determine
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Speaker 1: who's going to be on their new board. The Opposition
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Speaker 1: has also now received responses to their more than two
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Speaker 1: hundred questions to the government on the twelve million dollar
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Speaker 1: grandstand grant. Eighty of those questions went to the Chief Minister. Now,
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Speaker 1: according to the Opposition, the response to a lot of
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Speaker 1: these questions was the same and the government didn't really
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Speaker 1: answer the questions. Now I've seen some of them, some
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Speaker 1: of the questions and some of the responses. Now, a
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Speaker 1: lot of those questions were responded by saying the IKAK
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Speaker 1: had the ability to review all of the paperwork and
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Speaker 1: all processes, all findings in relation to the processes and
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Speaker 1: evidence gathered are in the IQAQ report. The IQAQ report
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Speaker 1: made no findings of unsatisfactory conduct against any government department
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Speaker 1: or minister.
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Speaker 3: Now, obviously I.
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Speaker 1: Can see where the government's going and what you're doing
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Speaker 1: that they're you know, obviously you guys are continuing to
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Speaker 1: claim that there's nothing to see here. But like I've said,
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Speaker 1: I guess right from the get do. The big questions
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Speaker 1: which remain unanswered at this point relate to how that
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Speaker 1: decision was made inside cabinet and how it was taken
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Speaker 1: into CA under the arm of the Chief Minister without
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Speaker 1: going through due process which would usually happen with the
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Speaker 1: grant of this nature. I mean, do you think it's
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Speaker 1: appropriate not to actually answer these questions?
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Speaker 2: So, Katie, without wanting to go back over what you've
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Speaker 2: just said, the Artack investigated this for eighteen months, released
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Speaker 2: a comprehensive report that made no findings against the government
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Speaker 2: or a minister. And as we've said consistently, the cabinet
15:25
Speaker 2: is elected to make decisions. If you go back to
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Speaker 2: that point in time, we needed to get money out
15:29
Speaker 2: the door for our infrastructure budget. We were looking at
15:31
Speaker 2: projects that not only had community benefit but also could
15:35
Speaker 2: stimulate the economy, and so that decision was made. We're
15:39
Speaker 2: elected to make decisions and the KAC made no findings
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Speaker 2: against any minister.
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Speaker 1: I think though, the big questions which still remain unanswered,
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Speaker 1: is realistically, how the government approved a twelve million dollar
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Speaker 1: grant for a grand stand without it going through the
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Speaker 1: usual processes that any other grant would have to go through.
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Speaker 1: You know, it was then, as we now know, walked
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Speaker 1: into cabinet by the Chief Minister under East without what
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Speaker 1: I can gather, the treasury documentation to support it, but
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Speaker 1: it was still approved.
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Speaker 2: So Katie, a cabinet followed a cabinet process in approving
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Speaker 2: the Darwin Turf Club grant. As I said, we were
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Speaker 2: in a situation where we had a significant infrastructure budget.
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Speaker 2: Our community was relying on the government infrastructure budget. It
16:20
Speaker 2: was a very different economic times to right now. Public
16:23
Speaker 2: projects is what was keeping people in the territory and
16:26
Speaker 2: in jobs, and so we made a number of infrastructure
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Speaker 2: grant decisions to get money out the door so that
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Speaker 2: we could invest in projects that would keep territories in
16:35
Speaker 2: jobs at the time and jobs into the future.
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Speaker 1: So then why not release the treasury documentation that supports
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Speaker 1: that this project was actually going to do that.
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Speaker 2: So Katy, as I said, this was one of a
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Speaker 2: number of infrastructure grant It's been thoroughly investigated by the
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Speaker 2: IKHO made no findings against any minister or the government
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Speaker 2: on this issue.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I can see that this isn't
16:55
Speaker 1: going to go away. I mean tonight we know that
16:58
Speaker 1: the Dow And Turf Club is going to have that
16:59
Speaker 1: new new board elected. How is the government going to
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Speaker 1: respond if any of the members of that new board
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Speaker 1: are actually members of the board that well previously was
17:10
Speaker 1: involved in this situation with the grand stand.
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Speaker 2: So Katie, as a government, we've said we need to
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Speaker 2: have confidence in the Darn Turf Club board going forward.
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Speaker 2: There was you know, when we ask those questions around
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Speaker 2: the grants and the processes of awarding the tenders, we
17:27
Speaker 2: were misled and so we need to have confidence with
17:29
Speaker 2: the board going forward that they were acting the best
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Speaker 2: interests and so we await that meeting and look forward
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Speaker 2: to to hopefully a new board that we can work
17:36
Speaker 2: together with for an important sector in the territory.
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Speaker 1: Will you have confidence in that board if any of
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Speaker 1: those members who are elected are former members that were
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Speaker 1: on the board when this Turf Club Grandstand deal went through.
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Speaker 2: So Katie, I'm not going to get into hypotheticals, but
17:52
Speaker 2: what we have clearly said is that we need to
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Speaker 2: see a new board so we can have confidence to
17:57
Speaker 2: work with them going forward.
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Speaker 1: And if you don't have confidence, is there funding going
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Speaker 1: to be impacted?
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Speaker 2: So Katie, the Chief Minister has indicated that there is
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Speaker 2: options available to the Territory government that we've got that
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Speaker 2: meeting tonight the Turf Club members, we hope will elect
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Speaker 2: a board that the Northern Territory Government can work with
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Speaker 2: and have confidence in going forward around racing in the territory.
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Speaker 1: Well, Minister for Health and also Minister for Racing, Gaming
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Speaker 1: and Licensing, we appreciate your time this morning.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thanks Katie,