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The Big Issues - Tuesday 1st June 2021 · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf on Mixed one oh four
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  Speaker 1: point nine thanks to Joyce Main.
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  Speaker 2: Dar you are listening to Mix one O four point ninet.
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  Speaker 2: It is that time on a Tuesday morning, joining me
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  Speaker 2: live in the studio for the big Issues. Well, I've
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  Speaker 2: got Dave Tolna, Good.
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  Speaker 1: Morning, always a pleasure, never live dang it.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Good morning to you. Are you yeah, very well
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  Speaker 2: and of course the Big Issues brought to you by
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  Speaker 2: Kolano Community Association and Aboriginal Looned operated and Community Lead
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  Speaker 2: Organization from the top End to Tenant Creek.
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  Speaker 1: Now, good to have you both.
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  Speaker 2: In the studio this morning, because there's quite a bit
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  Speaker 2: going on.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't there?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: This what's going on this morning?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to just start with Victoria because we know
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  Speaker 2: that the Victorian health officials say that the state is
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  Speaker 2: running neck and neck with this COVID nineteen crisis and
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  Speaker 2: the next few days are going to be critical. With
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  Speaker 2: eleven new locally acquired cases identified on Monday and the
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  Speaker 2: worrying news that coronavirus has been found in aged care,
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  Speaker 2: the situation is looking grim. Now I know that they've
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  Speaker 2: also they're looking at implementing a policy the public sector.
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  Speaker 2: Aged care workers in Victoria who have not been vaccinated
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  Speaker 2: against COVID nineteen are apparently going to be stood down
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  Speaker 2: from the front line duties to prevent the latest outbreak
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  Speaker 2: from reaching the state's most vulnerable people. There's no doubt
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  Speaker 2: that Victoria have had a bad run.
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  Speaker 1: Well, isn't it amazing to you?
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  Speaker 3: Like we've seen chairman Den now, well he's been spotted
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  Speaker 3: in a cafe down there in Dennistean.
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  Speaker 4: But he's terribly sick.
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  Speaker 3: Mate, You've just got to look at the state of
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  Speaker 3: Victoria to know that he's sick.
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  Speaker 4: He's out of action.
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  Speaker 3: So you've got to seriously ask the question, what is
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  Speaker 3: to go with the Victorian health system? Well, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I mean seriously, they've got five people that they've found
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  Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, the whole state is in lockdown.
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  Speaker 3: What they can't treat these people, they can't put them
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  Speaker 3: in quarantine, they can't isolate them.
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  Speaker 4: What do you have to do?
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  Speaker 2: A whole the concern is is that there's these these
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  Speaker 2: these cases popping up that are that are sort of
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  Speaker 2: coming out of nowhere, you know, like people are there's
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  Speaker 2: not you know, like they're not They can't them back
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  Speaker 2: to hotel quarantine or.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I don't know, you just put them in hospital
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  Speaker 3: or in quarantine or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and I mean eight hundred people.
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  Speaker 3: Have died mainly in the age care sector. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the most vulnerable that are in the age care sector.
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  Speaker 3: And now finally the pennies dropped that. I hang on,
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  Speaker 3: maybe we should be checking out the people who are
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  Speaker 3: working they.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I reckon, this is actually a good initiative. I
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  Speaker 2: do agree with this. I do happen everywhere age care.
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  Speaker 2: But realistically they should those age care workers in Victoria,
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  Speaker 2: if they've not been vaccinated, will they do need to
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  Speaker 2: maybe step away until they are vaccinated? Because you are
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  Speaker 2: talking about the vulnerable within the community in.
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  Speaker 1: Age we should be tested.
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  Speaker 4: Why haven't they got vaccinated?
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  Speaker 5: Like here stuff about politicians outgoing get tested, get vaccinated,
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  Speaker 5: Like it's not rocket surgery or brain science, this stuff
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  Speaker 5: like go and I get my second needle today and
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  Speaker 5: I'll be vaccinated.
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  Speaker 2: Are you taking him with you?
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  Speaker 1: And there's nothing wrong with him.
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  Speaker 4: He's a big he doesn't like vaccines, he don't like needles.
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  Speaker 1: He's a bitine.
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  Speaker 5: We can't see the pushing we shouldn't be pushing a
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  Speaker 5: thing about getting a vaccine like you go, they go
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  Speaker 5: Dr Smith, will Professor Smith. What do you think should
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  Speaker 5: happen to go? We can't change until we all get
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  Speaker 5: vaccine and then they get another specialist.
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  Speaker 4: I agree a vaccine, Well, why don't we set them up?
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  Speaker 1: Don't get it now?
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  Speaker 2: I'd go and get one and I actually this isn't
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  Speaker 2: the first time that we've heard this suggested. Actually today Hailey,
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  Speaker 2: we had a message come through that said, why don't
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  Speaker 2: we similar to the to the pop up testing facility
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  Speaker 2: that we saw at Marara on the weekend, Well, why
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  Speaker 2: don't we do the same for people going to get
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  Speaker 2: their vaccine and open it up for everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, if you wanted to get vaccinated, to be a
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  Speaker 3: hippocal to the chief chief necromans are here, I would not.
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  Speaker 3: You can't get it taken, get your photo taken to
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  Speaker 3: tell them that you're radio star.
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  Speaker 1: Special service. You know, Katie Wolfgate, you know who I am.
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  Speaker 1: I would never.
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  Speaker 4: Bad.
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  Speaker 5: It's the whole roll out being though, like you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's like waiting for action on climate change with the
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  Speaker 5: liberal government. It's just a slow and it's you get
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  Speaker 5: scomo is even talking slower, and Greg Hunt's talking slow
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  Speaker 5: like we're an embarrassment to the rest.
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  Speaker 4: Of the world.
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  Speaker 5: Lucky we're on an isolated island, don't we down the
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  Speaker 5: bottom and.
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  Speaker 1: There's no course.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you're seeing these places like w A, what
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  Speaker 3: there was two people over there that I found in
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  Speaker 3: the community and just shut it down, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Victoria five.
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  Speaker 4: Those two are actually the opposition in.
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  Speaker 1: The parliament, the couple down.
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  Speaker 3: When you sit there, you go, what's wrong with the
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  Speaker 3: health systems over there?
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  Speaker 1: What they can't treat anyone?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you've got to shut down a whole state,
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  Speaker 3: shut down all all those people, kick them out of work,
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  Speaker 3: put them, send them back home, all this sort of
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  Speaker 3: stuff because what they found five people in the hospital
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  Speaker 3: can't cope with it.
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  Speaker 2: I think that they actually did come into this instance,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not in the you know, like I'm not
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  Speaker 2: in the business of defending governments. I think what they
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  Speaker 2: did in the first instance was actually tried to do
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  Speaker 2: this teared approach where they said if you'd been to
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  Speaker 2: one of these areas of risk that then you had
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  Speaker 2: to go into self quarantine.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Simon Birmingham, even the Trade Minister, this morning,
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  Speaker 5: still trying to defend the rollout. You can't defend the rollout,
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  Speaker 5: all right, let's just open it up to everyone. I agree,
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  Speaker 5: line up, go if you go on out. I'd love
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  Speaker 5: it to be at monsoon so all the footballers could
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  Speaker 5: get done.
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  Speaker 4: On a Saturday night. There you're going, hey, there risk
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  Speaker 4: are they?
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  Speaker 2: Wee Footballwhere everybody go and get their vaccine? And do
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  Speaker 2: you know what, luck Dave. If you're not going to
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  Speaker 2: get yours, that's your prerogative. But for anybody else who
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  Speaker 2: wants to get this, open it up.
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  Speaker 3: I think anybody can go and get one fifty.
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  Speaker 4: You can't three weeks fifty?
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  Speaker 1: Really at risk?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'd like to go and get the I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to have as many people in the community get their
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  Speaker 2: vaccine as.
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  Speaker 1: Those people who are ill.
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  Speaker 2: Well, a lot of those people have already gone through the.
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  Speaker 1: Process of another it, so the people who at risk
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  Speaker 1: have gone through they should have gone and had their
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  Speaker 1: That's right. That's the main thing, isn't so are not
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  Speaker 1: at risk? You know people traveling.
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  Speaker 4: From other states.
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  Speaker 2: But if we've got people traveling from other states, I'll
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  Speaker 2: do my bit for the community to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: everybody's vaccinating get vaccinated.
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  Speaker 1: Scene is one may be faccinated and.
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  Speaker 2: From you as well.
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  Speaker 1: So you're worried about young kids.
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  Speaker 2: Know, I'm worried about the whole community, Dave on a
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  Speaker 2: broader spectrum, because if we've got a government that likes
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  Speaker 2: to shut things down fast, well, if the whole community
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  Speaker 2: is vaccinated, it certainly makes that argument a little bit tougher.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't it about talking about our government trying to fix
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  Speaker 3: up our health system so that we can actually start
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  Speaker 3: treating people who might have COVID and stopped worrying about
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  Speaker 3: shut and joint down every time someone gets a sniffle.
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  Speaker 4: Problem is shut down? Where where the sources? And how
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  Speaker 4: it's now? It's back in age.
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  Speaker 5: When I got sent through today's topics, I thought it
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  Speaker 5: was groundhole day.
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  Speaker 3: I was just.
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  Speaker 4: Talk about this.
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  Speaker 3: Again, pandemic pawn. We can get our heads around it,
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  Speaker 3: like we're just going to to keep this business.
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  Speaker 2: Any of other things happening around the place. And one
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  Speaker 2: of those things we did catch up with just enter
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  Speaker 2: Price a little bit earlyer this morning. Now she's put
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  Speaker 2: her hand up. She's going to run for the Senate
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  Speaker 2: seat against the current sitting Senator sam Nick Mahton it
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  Speaker 2: sounds like it's going to be an interesting race to
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  Speaker 2: the Senate. I'm hearing that there's other names going forward
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  Speaker 2: as well. Other people are keen to have a crack.
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  Speaker 2: Also thoughts from.
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  Speaker 3: What I can go that there's a whole lot of
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  Speaker 3: names going forward. That's not why Well, I'm a former
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  Speaker 3: chief of staff. Tim Dixon has put his hand up.
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  Speaker 3: He's a very polished operator, Tim, and that's good or
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  Speaker 3: for the Senate currently. I think he might have thrown
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  Speaker 3: the job in. He was Lea Fanocchi's chief of staff.
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  Speaker 1: Up until a little while ago.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, a lawyer, very very switched on, good guy,
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  Speaker 3: nice fellow, just seemed a price.
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  Speaker 1: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'd almost say she'd have to be the favorite,
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  Speaker 3: or she should be the favorite. Anyhow, given the nature
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  Speaker 3: of the Northern territory, I think we really do need
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  Speaker 3: somebody down there who can argue the issues, and particularly
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  Speaker 3: when you look at all this nonsense around the voice.
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  Speaker 3: Ken Whittt seems to be captured by the left and
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  Speaker 3: the and the Aboriginal industry. You know you've got Barb,
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  Speaker 3: but keep calling the barb. MELANDERI down there they're talking
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  Speaker 3: about replacing was a finally with with Mary and scrimge
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  Speaker 3: or you know you got Pat Dodson and and all
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  Speaker 3: these other.
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  Speaker 4: On the way he critiques the labor we're just on
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  Speaker 4: this bandwagon.
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  Speaker 1: Question well introduced into our.
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  Speaker 2: Going to well, who do you reckon's going to be.
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  Speaker 4: Pre selection? It's not about the labor.
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  Speaker 3: Partner, it's what's about what's best for the territory and
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  Speaker 3: we desperately need some the.
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  Speaker 4: Conry Senator, what you think of Margue for the issues?
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  Speaker 4: What do you think of the well.
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  Speaker 1: That she's performed particularly well?
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  Speaker 3: I mean there's such a strong field of candidates lining up,
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  Speaker 3: you'd have to wonder why that would be the case.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, for twenty years Nigel was our senator and
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that he was ever really challenged fundamentally
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  Speaker 3: did a great job and you know people saw that
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  Speaker 3: it was his seat.
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  Speaker 2: But what do you reckon highly?
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  Speaker 5: Oh look, I love it when the CELP are fighting
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  Speaker 5: amongst themselves and it's just good.
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  Speaker 3: Well. One of the beauties of politics is that it's
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  Speaker 3: a fight all the way through. And Harley will tell
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  Speaker 3: you want to be a Labor member of Parliament, it
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  Speaker 3: starts the minute you join the Union and you're fighting
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  Speaker 3: your way all.
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming it's a similar situation within the CELP. You
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  Speaker 2: do have to.
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  Speaker 1: Totally.
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  Speaker 3: You can sit there and throw stones at that and
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  Speaker 3: say they're all fighting, but the reality is that's what
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  Speaker 3: delivers your best candidates.
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  Speaker 2: Multi process is it just explain to our listeners as well,
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  Speaker 2: everybody that puts their hand up, put everybody that puts
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  Speaker 2: their hand up for pre selection, what is the process
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  Speaker 2: then in terms of who they decide is going to
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  Speaker 2: actually get that seat. From the COLP perspective, well, in.
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  Speaker 3: Relation to a federal candidate, whether it's a Senate or
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  Speaker 3: House or reps, it's a party decision. So it's a
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  Speaker 3: Central Council, which is the governing body of the country
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  Speaker 3: Liberal Party, and all of the delegates to Central Council
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  Speaker 3: will turn up. There's sixty or seventy eight of them
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  Speaker 3: from time to time, maybe less, maybe a bit more,
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  Speaker 3: but there's a large group of people from all over
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  Speaker 3: the territory and they'll sit there and they call them
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  Speaker 3: in and they come in and they have to speak
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  Speaker 3: for an hour or so and answer a range of
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  Speaker 3: questions that sort of stuff, and they'll be lobbying those
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  Speaker 3: Central Council delegates before that. I'd imagine that there's plenty
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  Speaker 3: of lobbying going on now amongst the candidates, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't even know that the field has been finalized yet
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  Speaker 3: for the c ORP, but you know there's.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the process ultimately, that's that's really in my
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  Speaker 6: You know, people argue about people who are party affiliated
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  Speaker 6: or independent, and the idea is, oh, well, you know,
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  Speaker 6: someone who's independent's not.
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  Speaker 1: Tied to the party.
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  Speaker 3: But the other side of that coin, someone who's been
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  Speaker 3: through the party system has already been through a level
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  Speaker 3: of vetting and they've been veted by the party. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, every man his dog can stick their hand
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  Speaker 3: up for as an independent, you know, they're not vetted
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  Speaker 3: by anyone. But you know, whether you're a Labor voter
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  Speaker 3: or a country Liberal voter, you can sort of feel
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  Speaker 3: some level of comfort that those candidates that those parties
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  Speaker 3: put up have actually gone through.
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  Speaker 4: Labour's just had the process we've had.
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  Speaker 5: Warren Snowden was in Lingiari for thirty two years and
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  Speaker 5: they called for nominations. Warren made it clear that he
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  Speaker 5: wasn't running next year in the election, so they called
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  Speaker 5: for nominations. There was four nominations and then those people
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  Speaker 5: ring party members. I think there was around about one
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  Speaker 5: hundred and thirty people had a vote something like that
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  Speaker 5: that were actual.
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  Speaker 4: Party members in living in Lingiari.
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  Speaker 5: And any sort of pre selection you do for federal
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  Speaker 5: seats got to be approved by our national executive. So
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  Speaker 5: the candidates get on the phone and make the phone calls.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously the personally ring everybody.
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  Speaker 5: Well they try to. You've got to go and talk
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  Speaker 5: to the people that have got to vote. Often people
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  Speaker 5: get caught up in wasting their time with people that
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  Speaker 5: don't actually have a vote or influence. So you're better
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  Speaker 5: off ringing, getting on the phones and ringing the people
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  Speaker 5: that actually have a vote. And that process occurred for
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  Speaker 5: Labor earlier this year and Marian Scrimjaw was elected as
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  Speaker 5: the candidate for Ningyari.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I got to say, yeah, when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: new candidates, you know there's always this view, do you
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  Speaker 3: run around like a headless chook chasing up votes within
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  Speaker 3: the party?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Right, is that the best way to attack things?
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  Speaker 3: And my view has always been become a community champion first.
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  Speaker 3: You know, anyone can go to branch meetings and lobby
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  Speaker 3: their members and all of that sort of stuff. But ultimately,
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  Speaker 3: if you really want to succeed as a politician, it's
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  Speaker 3: far better you've got the backing of your local community
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  Speaker 3: before you go to your political party asking them for
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  Speaker 3: pre selections. And it's a very good understanding who they are.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's very boy And I will say that
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  Speaker 2: you know, with both of you, gentlemen who have held
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  Speaker 2: those federal seats as well, you know a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: There will be a lot of people who do know
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  Speaker 2: this about you both, but there will be some who
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  Speaker 2: listen to the show and don't know this. You're both
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  Speaker 2: actually very heavily involved in the community, even since leaving politics,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that that's quite an admirable thing from
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  Speaker 2: both of you, that that's been a huge part of
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  Speaker 2: your lives when you were in politics and pre politics,
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  Speaker 2: but also afterwards as well. And I think that it
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  Speaker 2: goes to show you know your long term territory, you're
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  Speaker 2: part of the community, and that's actually what you want
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  Speaker 2: to see as well from anybody who is entering that
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  Speaker 2: field of politics. You want them to go in there.
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  Speaker 2: You know they may not have the same beliefs as me,
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  Speaker 2: They may not have the same beliefs as Dave, or
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  Speaker 2: the same ones as you, Damien, you know, but at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, But at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, you do want people in there who are
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  Speaker 2: part of the community and genuinely part of the community
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  Speaker 2: and is still part of that community even after they've
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  Speaker 2: left politics.
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  Speaker 1: In min I totally agree.
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  Speaker 3: And the other thing point you made there is your beliefs.
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  Speaker 3: And to me, this is the single most important thing
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  Speaker 3: in politics, is that you actually have some beliefs, you
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  Speaker 3: have some convictions. Too often, I think these days politicians
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  Speaker 3: are just going with the breeze, you know, wherever the
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  Speaker 3: polls are.
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  Speaker 1: They can't make.
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  Speaker 3: A decision unless they've done a poll. And you sit
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  Speaker 3: there and you think, well, what are you believing? What
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  Speaker 3: are you actually standing for? And what are people voting for?
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  Speaker 3: The voting for someone who's just going to read the
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  Speaker 3: polls every day, or someone who actually believes in something,
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  Speaker 3: wants to fight for something, wants to achieve something.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're here, yeah, to take a very shop.
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  Speaker 4: Dave Thomas just put up for the Senate.
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  Speaker 3: You've been the Kingdom making you understand, you understand the
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  Speaker 3: stigma being a senator in candles and I mean it's
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  Speaker 3: only when you're outside of Canda. The people even give
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  Speaker 3: senators the time of day. But when you're in the
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  Speaker 3: in the Federal Parlament, a friend of mine, no one,
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  Speaker 3: no one likes to senator.
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  Speaker 5: A friend of mine once said to me in the
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  Speaker 5: Parliament that she'd been laying around doing nothing for two weeks.
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  Speaker 4: And I said, what have you been over in the
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  Speaker 4: Senate and she goes, no, I've been in three sixty
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  Speaker 4: with Katie Wolf thanks to Joyce Main, Dowen Homes and
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  Speaker 4: Stuart Highway.
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  Speaker 2: Bear you are listening to three sixty and it is
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday morning. It is the Big Issues, and Dave Toller
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  Speaker 2: and Damian Hale are in the studio with me this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Surprises Katie, what's mixed?
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  Speaker 4: Well, actually, I.
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  Speaker 2: Do just need to I do just to actually mention
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  Speaker 2: that there was apparently an accident on the corner of
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  Speaker 2: Tiverndale Road and Stuart Highway just near Stratco a little
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  Speaker 2: bit earlier this hour. It's affecting traffic heading into the city.
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  Speaker 2: So if you are out and about and you're able
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  Speaker 2: to give us a bit of an update on how
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  Speaker 2: things are looking with that traffic, please get in contact.
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  Speaker 2: You can send us a text or give us a
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  Speaker 2: call and let us know how it's going.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: We also actually we've received quite a few messages, but
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  Speaker 2: I do just need to read on out from the
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  Speaker 2: Chief Minister's office. This is in relation to the situation
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  Speaker 2: that's being spoken about. Yesterday we talked about this. The
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  Speaker 2: Health Minister did reveal that we are looking at no
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  Speaker 2: longer having those repatriation flights landing at the Raft base
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  Speaker 2: and going through the Darwen International Airport. That is what's
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  Speaker 2: on the cards in the coming months. But the Chief
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  Speaker 2: Minister's Office have been in contact and said that the
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  Speaker 2: Federal government, through the Chief Health Nurse, have recommended landing
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  Speaker 2: repatriation flights at the Darwin Airport over the Raft. It's
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  Speaker 2: not a Northern Territory government push, but they're with it
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  Speaker 2: as long as all safety boxes atticked. There is still
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  Speaker 2: work to be done and it's early in the process
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  Speaker 2: with the Federal government and they would pay for those
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  Speaker 2: upgrade works to the Darwin Airport. So that does follow
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  Speaker 2: on as well from a discussion that we'd had with
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  Speaker 2: the opposition.
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  Speaker 1: Brother Looking out front, there's a lot of activity at
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  Speaker 1: the moment.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder whether that is.
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  Speaker 4: The training period. It's the best place in the world
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  Speaker 4: to fly up here at the moment you.
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  Speaker 2: Can hear them all in me. Now look, I am
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  Speaker 2: keen to talk to you both about the fact that
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  Speaker 2: we're going to see a state of Origin game. I
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: tell you what, Ronnie was unhappy when I told her this.
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  Speaker 2: She wanted it to be in Darwin.
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  Speaker 5: One of the great things about cod is that.
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  Speaker 1: Capacity.
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  Speaker 5: They've done state of origins before on Nassie Rules over
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  Speaker 5: so I think it's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that when did they do a state
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  Speaker 1: of origin on Narsie Wills. I don't know all about
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  Speaker 1: Sydney cricket.
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  Speaker 4: The Sydney Cricket ground they used to do what they
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  Speaker 4: had a rectangle.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I reckon it will be a time. There
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  Speaker 5: will be one day they might have an origin in Darwin.
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  Speaker 2: We can only hope. But I tell you what, this
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  Speaker 2: is fantastic for towns Well. I lived in Townsville for
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: a number of years and they go absolutely berserk. The
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Cowboys make the Grand Final, people paint their houses in
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: the Cowboys colors.
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  Speaker 3: They go crazy, absolutely thrilled that we've got something happening
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  Speaker 3: in North Australia. You know it is we miss out
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  Speaker 3: on so much. Up are you talking about politics? One
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  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty federal seats in the House of Reps,
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  Speaker 3: eight of them north of the Tropic of Capricorn.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Eight you know, let's sit there. You go, well, we
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: are a bit underrepresented. We are.
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  Speaker 5: We've got to have the origin in towns for Cairns
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  Speaker 5: and Rockampton this year the three games. So why just
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: so Queensland wins all three of them without saying.
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  Speaker 2: It, I don't know if there's well, none of us
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: in this room go for New South Wales, that's for sure,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: will be one agreed that. I actually think this push
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: to do more in regional parts of Australia as a
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: result of what's going on with COVID is a really
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: good thing. It does sort of give regional Australia the
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: opportunity to showcase there is whether you're talking about the
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: AFL you know and having games here, or whether you're
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: talking about the NRL and the likes of state of origin.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: It's a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: One of the most urbanized countries in the world, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think eighty percent of the population lives in four
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: or five capitals. Outside of that, there's not a whole lot,
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: and that's where all all of our wealth comes from,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: outside of those major capitals.
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  Speaker 1: You know what do you reckon? Highly?
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  Speaker 4: I just love listening today, just sitting.
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  Speaker 2: Back, You're just really sitting back and listening.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Just he's he's just rolling them.
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  Speaker 5: It's like the biggest campaign pitch I've ever heard from
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: Dave Tolner. What do you think it's a bit of
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: financial backing, backing.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: He's ready for retirement the Senate eating.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Got it right, will are here first on all the
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: big issues.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: First in all of him.
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  Speaker 5: If there's any young aspiring politicians out there, just listen
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: to this, get on radio and listen to this tonight
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: and listen to Dave.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: This is how you pitch yourself to a crowd. Absolutely excellent.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think anyway.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: That's it for They wouldn't find a more passionate person
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: in the c LP.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: It's definitely the A. B. C. And Christian Porter.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: No, we don't now you haven't actually read up on it.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: This episode, Yeah, we're going to talk about about the
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: situation with the.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: She has actually said that she suffers from depressions.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: It's a very different situation.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Five minute interview too well, there will be people who
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 3: She's only the richest, the highest paid athlete, female athlete
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: in the world, mean that.
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  Speaker 2: People don't have it doesn't matter where you come from.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Situation you've got. Now we are going to have to
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: wrap up.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: That's wrapp'd.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Not always good to catch up with you. Thank you
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: with you and not running for the Senate.
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  Speaker 4: We can confer.
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  Speaker 1: And Damien, Hi, always good.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: To catch up with you. Thanks so much for your
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: time this morning, and.
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  Speaker 4: Say it always a pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: In the victual you're listening to Mix one O four
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