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Katie Woolf spoke with Member for Solomon Luke Gosling · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Luke Gosling, Labour's member for Solomon, How are you this morning, Luke.
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  Speaker 2: Very well, Cody, And just amazed at how close some
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  Speaker 2: of those results in the NC election.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable, weren't they? I mean? And then when you're hear
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  Speaker 1: interstate that, you know, when there's sort of fifty votes
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  Speaker 1: or less that a lot of the time they do
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  Speaker 1: go to the Court of Disputed returns. But here in
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  Speaker 1: the territory, you know, in some cases four and five votes,
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  Speaker 1: so quite you know, quite phenomenal that they're not. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: obviously the result is the result, and people seem to
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  Speaker 1: have accepted it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and just a quick one on this the two
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  Speaker 2: seats issue, Cody, is about sixteen to twenty thousand Territorians
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  Speaker 2: that aren't enrolled to vote, So yeah, then knows what
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  Speaker 2: some of the results might have been if we had
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  Speaker 2: full enrollment. So I hope the AAV gets a Strain
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  Speaker 2: Electric Commission for some funding to help in Loganathan with
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  Speaker 2: his important work.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, Luke. One of the things that I was
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  Speaker 1: keen to have a chat to you about this morning
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  Speaker 1: is Senator Sam mcmartony's obviously in the paper today calling
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  Speaker 1: on her Federal Government colleagues to use the Bladon Village
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  Speaker 1: Workers Camp on Wickham Point obviously here in Darwen, to
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  Speaker 1: repatriate even more Ossie stranded overseas. What do you reckon?
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  Speaker 1: Is this a good idea?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's a matter for the Federal government certainly in
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  Speaker 2: favor of more Ozzie's getting home before Christmas, if we
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  Speaker 2: can do it in a safe way. But Sarada McMahon
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have to talk to the NT News. She wants
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  Speaker 2: to talk to her colleages down here in Canberra. She
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  Speaker 2: obviously can just go and talk to them and say,
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  Speaker 2: is there some more funding that we could bring so
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  Speaker 2: that this private owned facility, which is what Bladen Point is,
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  Speaker 2: can be funded to provide quarantine services for the Federal
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  Speaker 2: government and their plan hopefully to get as many people
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  Speaker 2: home before Christmas as they can.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And the point that I've been making throughout the
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  Speaker 1: morning is I'm in the same lines as you. I
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  Speaker 1: think that obviously we need to get home, but my
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  Speaker 1: concern is that we've also got to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: we've got all the services that are required. If we
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  Speaker 1: do have a second facility operating here in the Northern territory.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the last thing that we want is for
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  Speaker 1: anything to go wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Patty has got to be done in a
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  Speaker 2: safe way and basically can't be done without the federal
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  Speaker 2: government's support. So I'd encourage Sam McMahon to talk to
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  Speaker 2: her colleague down here in Canberra. I'm talking to her
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  Speaker 2: colleagues giving them an understanding of the capacity of other
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  Speaker 2: facilities up here if they wanted to sort of double
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  Speaker 2: down on Darwin's role in the national plan to get
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  Speaker 2: us his home. But you know that comes with a
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  Speaker 2: need for resourcing from the federal government and lets the
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  Speaker 2: last thing we want to do is cut corners. The
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  Speaker 2: last thing we want to do is have an outbreak.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll just continue to stress also the defact who
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  Speaker 2: are organized in these austraants overseas to get onto these
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  Speaker 2: flights now, they need to be doing all the testing
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  Speaker 2: before the Ausies even get on the plane, just just
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  Speaker 2: to make doubly sure that HOWD Springs can do its
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  Speaker 2: job safely. There's excellent people there and we're playing our
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  Speaker 2: role which all territories should be really proud of.
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  Speaker 1: And look, we will catch up with Senator Sam McMahon
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  Speaker 1: a bit later this morning. But hey, I understand as
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  Speaker 1: well you'll kent to have a bit of a chat
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  Speaker 1: to us about the universities. I understand that legislation has
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  Speaker 1: now passed which will make those university degrees more expensive
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  Speaker 1: in some cases.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really disappointing. Yes, they're hear in the
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  Speaker 2: Federal Parliament in camera. The Liberals are the coalition. Federal
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  Speaker 2: government pass legislation to make students pay much more for
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  Speaker 2: their degrees. So forty percent of students will have their
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  Speaker 2: fees increase by about fourteen and a half thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: a year. That'll double the cost for thousands and thousands
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  Speaker 2: of of young Territorians and young Australians that want to
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  Speaker 2: study the humanities, commerce, calm communications degrees like that will
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  Speaker 2: now be more expensive than it is to become a
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  Speaker 2: doctor or a dentist. So it's just a bit galling
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  Speaker 2: when you've got the front bench of the Federal government
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  Speaker 2: who've all got those types of degrees. It's they're okay,
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  Speaker 2: but they're going to double the cost of young Australians
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  Speaker 2: getting the same degrees as they've got, and so many
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  Speaker 2: young Australians, young Territorians moving into unemployment about one hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand across the country in the past a few months alone,
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  Speaker 2: and with job prospects still the job market a bit
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  Speaker 2: weak right now. It's not the right time to be
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  Speaker 2: moving to an American situation where only the kids with
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  Speaker 2: the wealthier parents can get an education. Otherwise it's sattled
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  Speaker 2: with a lifetime of debt.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly a disappointing one for any of those students
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  Speaker 1: that we're looking to go into or are looking to
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  Speaker 1: go into those types of degrees. Luke, I always appreciate
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  Speaker 1: your time, mate, Thanks so very much for having a
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  Speaker 1: chat with us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks kerbye, Thank you.