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Katie Woolf spoke with Northern Land Council acting CEO Joe Martin-Jard · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Now we do know that the Northern Land Council has
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  Speaker 1: suspended permits to enter and we'll remain on top end
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  Speaker 1: Aboriginal Land from midday yesterday until further notice. It does
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  Speaker 1: follow on from the announcement of the COVID nineteen lockdown. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the nlc's acting Chief executive Officer, Joe Martin Jard joins
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  Speaker 1: me on the line right now.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Hi Katie, thanks for having me back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks so much for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Joe, talk us through the situation at the moment for
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  Speaker 1: remote communities, can people Obviously people aren't able to head
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  Speaker 1: into those communities at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Are they.
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  Speaker 3: Only essential workers? And at this stage and I just
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  Speaker 3: want to put a shout out to all the trackees
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  Speaker 3: and tradees and airline workers and the police and everyone
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  Speaker 3: else who are you are keeping us safe out bush yep.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just you know, the non essential tourists and
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  Speaker 3: people like that, and it's only suspended and will take
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  Speaker 3: some health advice from the government on Friday and reassess
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  Speaker 3: things and see where we're up to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, I think it's fair enough.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to make sure we have to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that those living in our remote communities asked are able
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  Speaker 1: to stay safe. How are people feeling in some of
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  Speaker 1: those communities at the moment, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: They're quite alarmed, as you can imagine, and they're only
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  Speaker 3: wanting essential, well very essential workers. And yeah there are
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  Speaker 3: you know, not the first time we've been through a pandemic,
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  Speaker 3: so sorry this kind of emergency, Yeah, yeah, yeah, they
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  Speaker 3: just want people to follow the rules. And if you're
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  Speaker 3: in Darwin or Catherine and you're in a lockdown, please
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  Speaker 3: stay where you are.
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  Speaker 1: And Joe, with residents that are maybe here in Darwin
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  Speaker 1: at the moment, but their full time home is one
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  Speaker 1: of the communities, are they able to get back or
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  Speaker 1: do they need to stay in town right now?
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  Speaker 3: It's best to stay in town for as long as
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  Speaker 3: the lockdowns in place, and to try to return is
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  Speaker 3: probably putting themselves at risk and other people at risk.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we'd like to see everyone get vaccinated, of course,
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  Speaker 3: and also do negative testing. Yeah, but we know from
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  Speaker 3: all the evidence that that's not feel pressed. You know,
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  Speaker 3: this latest case, this blake didn't test positive until three
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  Speaker 3: days are free left quarantine, So you know, we're all
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  Speaker 3: a bit worried about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and we've been talking a bit more about
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  Speaker 1: that this morning as well. I know that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people are feeling pretty upset. I suppose that we've
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  Speaker 1: entered into this three day lockdown and we're in the
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  Speaker 1: situation that we are because on day seventeen someone's tested positive.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, do we need to, like from your perspective,
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  Speaker 1: on the nlc's perspective, do we maybe need to have
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a relook at, you know, when we
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  Speaker 1: test people who've traveled from from somewhere international to the
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  Speaker 1: northern territory.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, Katie. And you know, like another three days really
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  Speaker 3: is bugarall when you compare to what thousands of people
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  Speaker 3: living in Darwin now and Catherine we're all in bloody lockdown.
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  Speaker 1: Pardon the French, No, mate, it's not lost on us
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  Speaker 1: where okay with that?
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  Speaker 2: Joe?
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  Speaker 1: I like the I like it when people are passionate
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  Speaker 1: and real about what they're talking about. Mate, on those
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  Speaker 1: vaccination rates in our remote communities.
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  Speaker 2: How's it all rolling out?
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  Speaker 3: From your perspective, I think it's going as well as
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  Speaker 3: as it could, but look just not fair enough. We're
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  Speaker 3: hearing reports from the eastern part of Catherine for example,
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  Speaker 3: where the rollouts patchy, to put it best, and then
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  Speaker 3: you compare that to places like man and Greta is
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  Speaker 3: going absolutely game buses and you know they're doing the
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  Speaker 3: right thing. So yeah, we just want to see everyone vaccinated,
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  Speaker 3: to be frank with you, and so far it's getting
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  Speaker 3: out there, but yeah, we just need everyone to get vaccinated.
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  Speaker 1: Has there been much hesitancy like that vaccination hesitancy from
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  Speaker 1: some of the different communities, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: There has been some hesitancy, and you know there's selling
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  Speaker 3: anti vaxines getting around filling people's heads with nonsense. But
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  Speaker 3: thank heavens, we've got some average on leaders like Marrying Scrimjaw,
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  Speaker 3: Sammy bus Blnazi. They're getting vaccinated publicly to Shaw countrymen,
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  Speaker 3: it's safe, it's all right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean to any of our indigenous listeners out there
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  Speaker 1: this morning, what is your message for them when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to the vaccination.
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  Speaker 2: Do we need to just make sure that we you
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  Speaker 2: know that they're.
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  Speaker 1: Getting out there, that they're getting that vaccine as quickly
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  Speaker 1: as they can.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, please get an appointment at the clinic. Talk
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  Speaker 3: to your nurse or your GP or your aboriginal health professional.
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  Speaker 3: Talk to those people, get as much information as you can,
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  Speaker 3: and then put your name down to get vaccinated. When
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  Speaker 3: fives are comes to your community, please get vaccinated well.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Martin Jarred, the NLCS Acting Chief Executive, always enjoy
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  Speaker 1: catching up with you mate.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so very much for your time this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Katie, Thank you Joe Martin jard there from
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  Speaker 1: the NLC