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Katie Woolf spoke with Senator Luke Gosling · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: If you missed that interview with Michael McCormack, the Deputy
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister, earlier this morning, take a listen and.
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  Speaker 2: There will be there will be.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the assurance two seats for the Northern territory going forward.
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  Speaker 1: So you are guaranteeing that we will have those two
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  Speaker 1: House of Reps seats.
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  Speaker 4: We will maintain those.
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  Speaker 3: Underline it and put a couple of exclamation marks after
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  Speaker 3: it if you.
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  Speaker 1: Like, excellent, I will be doing that well. Joining me
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  Speaker 1: on the line right now is Luke Gosling, the Member
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  Speaker 1: for Solomon, the Federal Member for Solomon whose seat would
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  Speaker 1: be impacted if we don't maintain these two seats.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning to you, Luke, Good morning Katie.
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  Speaker 2: Luke.
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  Speaker 1: We did catch up with the Deputy Prime Minister earlier
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  Speaker 1: this morning and as we just replayed, he said that
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  Speaker 1: he will guarantee that we keep those two seats.
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  Speaker 4: How does that make you feel?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I think it's hung over, dude, but it's obviously welcome, Katie.
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  Speaker 2: I spoke with him last night. I've also been speaking
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  Speaker 2: with Barnaby Joyce, who believes strongly that regional Australian should
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  Speaker 2: be properly represented, fairly represented and I've just given a
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  Speaker 2: speech that I've put up on my Facebook later in
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  Speaker 2: the Parliament because it's really evident down here, Katie, that
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  Speaker 2: it's so Sydney centric in particular, and the last three
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  Speaker 2: Prime Ministers have been from there, that there's not a
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  Speaker 2: deep understanding or and it doesn't seem to be too
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  Speaker 2: much care about what's happening in regional rural areas of Australia.
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  Speaker 2: So I really welcomed the Deputy Prime Minister, as you know,
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  Speaker 2: has basically listened to the voices of Territorians that we're
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  Speaker 2: not taking classes and as we as a fair representation,
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  Speaker 2: and that's obviously welcome news. I've just hope we can
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  Speaker 2: trust that they will support the legislation when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to the Parliament. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't agree with you more.
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  Speaker 1: And look, you and I have spoken about this on
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  Speaker 1: so many occasions, even earlier this week, we've discussed the
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  Speaker 1: importance of maintaining these two seats and you very rightly
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  Speaker 1: pointed out, you know, it hasn't always been a labor
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  Speaker 1: held seat. Obviously there's been the COLP member who's held
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  Speaker 1: the seat of Solomon as well. It's just important that
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  Speaker 1: Territorians are represented, Yeah, who.
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  Speaker 2: Represent who represents those seats as up the territories. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: But for this Parliament and for this government at this
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  Speaker 2: Prime Minister and not to prioritize this issue has really
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  Speaker 2: been disappointing, I've got to say. And look, we obviously
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  Speaker 2: hoped for more in terms of infrastructure funding for the
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  Speaker 2: Northern Territory. I've just got out of the chain for
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  Speaker 2: talking about the amount of social housing we need in
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  Speaker 2: the Northern territories to be great for jobs and great
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  Speaker 2: to put a roof over the territorian's head. Now, these
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  Speaker 2: issues are things that we expect the federal government to
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  Speaker 2: care about it and I'm just glad that we've been
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  Speaker 2: able to pressure and I again I think Barnaby Joyce,
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  Speaker 2: we've been able to pressure the Leader of the Nationals
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  Speaker 2: to say to the Prime Minister, look, I really need
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  Speaker 2: to do this. I need to back the Northern Territory here.
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  Speaker 2: So we welcome it, but what we want to see
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  Speaker 2: is a clearer I would want to see the Prime
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  Speaker 2: Minister visit Darwin. We want him to be announcing actual funds,
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  Speaker 2: get out there, get the greaters going on the roads.
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  Speaker 2: Because all we've seemed to hear lately, Paty is a
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  Speaker 2: lot of announcements we've not much followed through. And when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to territorians are still stranded overseas, we're fighting
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  Speaker 2: for them down here in Canberra because they deserve to
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  Speaker 2: get home for Christmas. So there's plenty on down here, Kady,
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  Speaker 2: and this whole thing has been a massive distraction. It
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  Speaker 2: should never have come to this. When Ron Howard was
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  Speaker 2: in the same position, he just fixed it straight away
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  Speaker 2: and made sure that the territory maintained two seats. Prime
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  Speaker 2: Minister still hasn't said a word about this issue. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Luckily we have been able to put pressure on the
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  Speaker 2: Nationals to make this commitment today and I welcome it. Looke.
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  Speaker 1: Just on that situation with the Aussies that are still
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  Speaker 1: stranded overseas, has there been much of an update in
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  Speaker 1: this space? Obviously we caught up with Stephan Wood about
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  Speaker 1: a week or two ago, who was in Singapore trying
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  Speaker 1: to bring Assie's back.
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  Speaker 4: Has there been much of an update?
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately there hasn't given another speech and I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: send that to the stranded territories overseas where I'm directed
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  Speaker 2: directly calling on the Prime Minister to work and we
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  Speaker 2: have got this national Cabinet to work with other capital
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  Speaker 2: cities other than those on the Eastern Seaboard and Perth,
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  Speaker 2: but to work with the Anti government, to work with Darwin.
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  Speaker 2: Because quarantine is a federal responsibility. He can get flights,
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  Speaker 2: he can allow flights to come into Darwin to support
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  Speaker 2: financially the quarantining of those individuals. We've got plenty of
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  Speaker 2: quarantine facilities outside of how It Springs that is able
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  Speaker 2: to help quarantine. So we're calling on the federal government
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  Speaker 2: to help there. They know their own budget that we've
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  Speaker 2: just taken a whack throughout esp We didn't get the
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  Speaker 2: infrastructure fumes we'd hoped for. We've got territory and still
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  Speaker 2: stranded overseas and won't get home for Christmas. The territory
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  Speaker 2: can play a role. There's already flight stopping here in
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  Speaker 2: Darwin rather in Darwin. I'm Danny Camber at the moment,
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  Speaker 2: but there's sights stopping in Darwin at the moment to
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  Speaker 2: refuel but go onto places like Hong Kong. We've got
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  Speaker 2: people suck in Nepal and in Laos that have got
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  Speaker 2: the ability to have charter flights coming in to Darwin.
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  Speaker 2: And use other places of quarantine other than how it springs.
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  Speaker 2: So we can do that if we've got some support
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  Speaker 2: for the federal government, and it is an issue for
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  Speaker 2: the federal government quarantine, So they should stop passing the buck.
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  Speaker 2: They've just announced the one trillion dollar budget and they
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  Speaker 2: still can't manage to allow out some funds in there
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  Speaker 2: to get stranded Ozzy's home by Christmas, which I thinks,
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  Speaker 2: which I think shameful. But we've got to keep working
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  Speaker 2: with them, Cadie, and that's what we're going down here
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  Speaker 2: in Canberra.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Look, obviously the Opposition will be delivering their budget reply tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Now you did touch on the GST, and this is
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  Speaker 1: something I'd raised yesterday with Matthias Corman, the Federal Finance Minister.
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  Speaker 1: He reckons that we're not losing in GST.
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  Speaker 4: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: Let me be very explicit. The Northern Territory in twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty one is expected to receive two point seven billion
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  Speaker 3: dollars in GST payments and that is an increase, an
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  Speaker 3: increase of two on on twenty one point six million
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  Speaker 3: dollars compared to twenty nineteen twenty loke, where is.
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  Speaker 1: The confusion around this GST because I think for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people listening this morning, they just don't get why.
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  Speaker 1: You know why the federal government and you know, the
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  Speaker 1: federal opposition and also the territory government are on a
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  Speaker 1: different page when it comes to the GST, Kadie.
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  Speaker 2: It has been to do with what was expected or
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  Speaker 2: projected to becoming our way as opposed to what ended
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  Speaker 2: up being in the budget. Anyway you look at it,
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  Speaker 2: we've got we've got a reduction on what we were expecting.
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  Speaker 2: So our main argument here to the federal government is,
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  Speaker 2: you've got a trillion dollar budget. We expected more assistance
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  Speaker 2: in terms of infrastructure funding to assist us given that
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  Speaker 2: we've got less money coming in through the GST, and
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  Speaker 2: we understand that through COVID there's been less commercial activity,
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  Speaker 2: there's been less GST taken. It was less than projected,
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  Speaker 2: but there's just been any no sign at all from
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  Speaker 2: the federal government that that they're willing to help us
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  Speaker 2: with the financial situation we find ourselves in. If we're
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  Speaker 2: going to rebound back from our current situation, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to need the federal government to assist and they should.
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  Speaker 1: What can we expect tonight when Anthony Albanesi delivers that
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  Speaker 1: budget reply and will territory and be satisfied.
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  Speaker 2: Well, obviously, Katie, I think the Prime Minister will go
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  Speaker 2: to an election early, so just say the elections about
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  Speaker 2: a year away. Some of our policy announcements will obviously
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  Speaker 2: be in the lead up to the election. But I
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  Speaker 2: think what Elbow will do tonight is set out the
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  Speaker 2: fact that Labor has a plan for things like social housing,
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  Speaker 2: like oild care. There was nothing in this budget from
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  Speaker 2: the Prime Minister to help families that are struggling with
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  Speaker 2: the cost of childcare. Those things that are important to families.
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  Speaker 2: Elbow will be addressing them tonight. I think that what
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  Speaker 2: Territorians will see in Albow is someone that actually cares
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  Speaker 2: about working Australians. And obviously in the lead up to
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  Speaker 2: the election there'll be more policy announcements. But it's just
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  Speaker 2: been a bit disappointing that fair representation for the territory
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  Speaker 2: has taken this long to get there. And I guess
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  Speaker 2: what we really welcome is the fact that the Nationals
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  Speaker 2: have said to the Prime Minister this is something that
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  Speaker 2: we need to do. We welcome that in our bipartisan way,
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  Speaker 2: but we just want to see less announcements without follow through.
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  Speaker 2: So with our federal government announces something, we want to
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  Speaker 2: see the action on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Luke, we are going to have to leave it there.
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  Speaker 1: Always good to catch up with you. Thanks so much
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  Speaker 1: for taking the time to speak with us this morning
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  Speaker 1: from Canberra.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Katie, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: That is Luke Gosling there, Labour's member for Solomon. You
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  Speaker 1: are listening to Mix one O four point nine