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Katie spoke with independent Member for Goyder Kezia Purick about home quarantine eligibility in remote areas · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: But joining me on the line right now is the
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  Speaker 1: independent member for Goiter Kesi Apuric. Good morning to you, Ekezia.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, good morning, Katie Kezia.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of discussion over the last twenty four hours
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  Speaker 1: about those changes to home quarantine and the fact that
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  Speaker 1: travelers were allowed to arrive yesterday. I think there was
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  Speaker 1: about seventeen planes arrived yesterday and they'd be able to
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  Speaker 1: go into home quarantine if they would double vaxed Kesier.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of rural residents concerned about whether they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to do it based on their four
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  Speaker 1: g What are you being told?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the government doesn't seem to be accommodating the large
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  Speaker 2: volume of people who live in the rural area. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not suggesting for one minute that any rule should
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  Speaker 2: be broken or bended in any way given the stousness
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  Speaker 2: of this virus and what it's done to our community.
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  Speaker 2: I have spoken to the government. I've written to the
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  Speaker 2: Minister for Health. The bulk of the ruler doesn't get
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  Speaker 2: forward you on a regular basis, if at all, now
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  Speaker 2: right to administer health and sash a file. She wrote
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  Speaker 2: back and said that yes, yes, we were to really
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  Speaker 2: say we didn't think of that, but you know you
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  Speaker 2: read between the lines, and clearly the governor didn't think
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  Speaker 2: this through, if they often don't think things through. Now
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  Speaker 2: she said there might be an option for Wi fi,
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  Speaker 2: which people had Wi Fi and the Rule air. But
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  Speaker 2: as I've said to some people, what's wrong with a
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  Speaker 2: plane old boring landlight. A lot of people in the
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  Speaker 2: Rule are still have cobblewhire landlines and that's how you
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  Speaker 2: operate our ABHL. Now where's the lexibility to try and
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  Speaker 2: assist people in the Rule air. The other thing is
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  Speaker 2: that I'm still getting consistent information as to whether Literal
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  Speaker 2: Council is considerably greater part of the Greater Darwin because
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  Speaker 2: on one hand the team Sinister calls it all Greater Dawn,
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  Speaker 2: which is Daln Thomson an issue area, and then other
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  Speaker 2: times it's not so. The other touch component of home
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  Speaker 2: clentin is your locality has to have a vaccination rate
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  Speaker 2: up of about eighty percent. Now, if we don't have
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  Speaker 2: it a stand alone, perhaps we have it combined with
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  Speaker 2: those other two places. And where else could you do
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  Speaker 2: better home quarantine than in the Rule? Is the bulk
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  Speaker 2: of people here have five as the plus block you
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  Speaker 2: don't even see your name for the week in week out,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot most people have senses and you know
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  Speaker 2: their gate, so you see the perfect place for home quarantine.
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  Speaker 1: So Casey, what has the government come back to you
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  Speaker 1: with any of this information at this point in time
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  Speaker 1: to say whether those rural area residents are going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to home quarantine.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, they haven't. I mean there's the other other
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  Speaker 2: issues of people who live Arica, which is in my
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  Speaker 2: electric now they're not within the local government area, but
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  Speaker 2: the government see again that area's got to have a
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  Speaker 2: vaccination rate of eighty percent. Well, what's the definition of
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  Speaker 2: their area? And also they're the same situation and some
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  Speaker 2: place to get four G like at the Strobbery cavern
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  Speaker 2: they can get for you clearly. So I just think
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  Speaker 2: there needs to be a little bit more thinking down
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  Speaker 2: on this by the government to try and get these
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  Speaker 2: come back from the state. I'm vaccinated, so the chance
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  Speaker 2: of them, oh well, I can't say that they won't
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  Speaker 2: have device so you can carry. But I think it's
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  Speaker 2: too hard. The chiefs online hand makes announcements and then
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  Speaker 2: on the other hand, the department is the sistet information.
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  Speaker 2: So I just wish they'd get their communication strategy better
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  Speaker 2: refine such that we can get quid messages. I'm dealing
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  Speaker 2: with the Minister's office all the time. It's just for
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  Speaker 2: health trying to work out consistent and their families to
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  Speaker 2: get home and to home county, I mean, get them
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  Speaker 2: out of the system. But how it brings because clearly
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  Speaker 2: that facility is going to perhaps fill up more than
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  Speaker 2: what it already is badly. So if a person can
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  Speaker 2: adequately be quieted at home, why can't they bring in
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  Speaker 2: every second day, you know on a landline. Surely can
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  Speaker 2: find an operator somewhere. I don't know one has an
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  Speaker 2: issue with the testingy. You know, one day's four day,
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  Speaker 2: five or seven day. No one has usual with that.
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  Speaker 2: But just please start to think about people other than
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  Speaker 2: the urban area well.
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  Speaker 1: And keys here. I think it is a very fair
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  Speaker 1: point that you're making. It's something that's been made by
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  Speaker 1: a lot of our listeners as well and the Health
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  Speaker 1: Minister in the early you know, a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: ago when we were first talking about this trial and
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  Speaker 1: she'd said that you'd only be eligible with four G,
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  Speaker 1: we were inundated with calls. People are really worried about
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  Speaker 1: this and rightly so.
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  Speaker 2: But Cody the two words the government should always or
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  Speaker 2: their advisors or the department should always ask, what is
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  Speaker 2: a home doesn't have four gens? What is three g
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  Speaker 2: I mean you know I'm talking to you. I'm down
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  Speaker 2: to the climate toool. I don't know what I've got,
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  Speaker 2: but you know the phone works on as well as
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  Speaker 2: on forges. It's might drop in an advocation. So why
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  Speaker 2: is the governmany so inflexible? And why are they not
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  Speaker 2: moving If the minister said wi fi is an option
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  Speaker 2: and landline is an option, well why are they moving on? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Well totally fair enough.
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  Speaker 2: I did busy that. Hey, you're in government busy times
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  Speaker 2: and it's not busy jumpan one of those busy times
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  Speaker 2: when you've just got to get your shit together better
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  Speaker 2: than what you currently doing. When it comes to the
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  Speaker 2: rural area, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: Well, keesyopiric, we are going to have to leave it there.
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  Speaker 1: Will we see you from for the week? That was?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, I'd love to come. I love well anyway, we.
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  Speaker 1: Will talk to you soon, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to put a nice word in. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to have to do Prima school and Fisher is
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  Speaker 2: the principle down here, and she's retiring down here for
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  Speaker 2: the special assembly. She's been in the home to do
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  Speaker 2: Prima School probably best part of fifteen years. And she's
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  Speaker 2: been a teacher up here for nearly three years and
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  Speaker 2: a wonderful, wonderful person, so there all time, like she
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  Speaker 2: teme up here when she's a little pack yep and
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  Speaker 2: swell on the funny baby, swing twinter and not be
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  Speaker 2: stung or eaten by Okay, you'll have to regard it.
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  Speaker 1: You'll have to pass her details on for as keys here.
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  Speaker 1: That is wonderful and a big congratulations to her. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we better leave it there. We got it toough off
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  Speaker 1: to the news. Thank you.