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

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  Speaker 1: But let's head down to camera right now, where the
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  Speaker 1: Member for Solomon, Luke Gosling joins us. Good morning to you, Luke,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Katy mate. Thanks so much for your time
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  Speaker 1: this morning. I understand Luke that you're working with the
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  Speaker 1: Working Women's Center at the moment in an effort to
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  Speaker 1: try and secure them some permanent funding.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I've been working with them for many years now, Katie.
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  Speaker 2: But if I could just quickly touch on that direct
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  Speaker 2: flight oh yeh, London to Darwin. It should have always yes,
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  Speaker 2: dar One should have always been the hub anyway, and
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  Speaker 2: we were trying to get that up and Perth wanted,
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  Speaker 2: but Darwin should be the natural point as the gayway
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  Speaker 2: that we are. And of course we've got dedicated quarantine
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  Speaker 2: here as well, so it makes all sorts of sense
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  Speaker 2: to say in through Darwin, and particularly as we've got
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  Speaker 2: that extra capacity out of Bladon and the federal government
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  Speaker 2: keeps saying that they're interested in that, so we just
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  Speaker 2: need to get them over the line on that. Not
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  Speaker 2: quite not quite.
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  Speaker 1: Gee. It's going to be interesting though, isn't it If
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  Speaker 1: we do indeed end up with a with a direct
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  Speaker 1: flight from London to Darwin. Which, like I said, reading
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  Speaker 1: between those lines. So this is in the Australia and
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  Speaker 1: it says that Perth could lose its NonStop London service
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  Speaker 1: to Darwin. That'll be really interesting stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Do we massive Because we'll get them into Darwin, they
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  Speaker 2: can be warm, they can be in dedicated to quarantine,
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  Speaker 2: so leg red chance of leak each that we've seen
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  Speaker 2: in hotel quarantine. But also I'm sure that many of
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  Speaker 2: them will go, hey, we're here, let's go to Kakadu,
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  Speaker 2: let's duck down the Litchfield or get over to the
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  Speaker 2: tea weeks, let's do some fishing. So I think it's
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  Speaker 2: really exciting news and we'll be doing everything we can
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  Speaker 2: down here to convince Corners that that's indeed a smart move.
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  Speaker 2: So Katie, just moving to the Northern Territory Working Women's
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  Speaker 2: you know they've been I remember talking to Pete Davies
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  Speaker 2: about it back in the day. It's just been they've
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  Speaker 2: continually had their funding cut by the federal government, which
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  Speaker 2: is really unfortunate. And we just keep fighting for them
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  Speaker 2: because they provide such tailored and specific services to women
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  Speaker 2: that need that support, to et support because of treatment
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  Speaker 2: they've had in the workplace. And we know that the
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  Speaker 2: Respected Work Report by the Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins,
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  Speaker 2: all the federal government's had that for a long long
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  Speaker 2: time now, and she recommended to the federal government that
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  Speaker 2: the working Women's centers are not only funded properly, but
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  Speaker 2: they should be re established where they've been shut down recently.
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  Speaker 1: For those out there listening who don't know exactly what
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  Speaker 1: the NT Working Women's Center does, can you just give
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  Speaker 1: us a bit of an idea.
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  Speaker 2: So Working Women's Center physically located down there on Wood
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  Speaker 2: Street and they've been working there for years. And the
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  Speaker 2: center is really important because there's local staff there with
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  Speaker 2: a deep understanding of workplace issues in places like the NT.
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  Speaker 2: And what they do is help especially vulnerable women that
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  Speaker 2: needing some support to get through difficulties they've got with
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  Speaker 2: there in their workplace. Now that might not be the employer,
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  Speaker 2: it might be other employees. It may be that they
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  Speaker 2: need some assistance with any number of issues that can
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  Speaker 2: happen in a workplace to do with their rates of
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  Speaker 2: pay or their conditions of pay. And I guess the
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  Speaker 2: really important thing about the ANT Working Women Center is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's such a power in balance sometimes in
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  Speaker 2: some workplaces, and this can be even the private sector
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  Speaker 2: or the government sector, where if you're a vulnerable woman
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  Speaker 2: that in that workplace, to have the support and the
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  Speaker 2: legal backing about what their rights are just becomes important
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  Speaker 2: soether they don't get railroaded or indeed sacked when they
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't be. So it's just that important support for people
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  Speaker 2: that women who particularly those who are vulnerable.
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  Speaker 1: And Luke, so you are what work are you going
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  Speaker 1: to do or are you going to be starting a
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  Speaker 1: petition in an effort to try and ensure that you know,
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  Speaker 1: this funding does become more permanent so that they're not
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  Speaker 1: sort of going off. You know, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: the situation is now, whether it's a year by year
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  Speaker 1: thing or how often they know whether they've got that funding,
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  Speaker 1: But what work are you going to get underway to
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  Speaker 1: try and sort it out?
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  Speaker 2: We are launching a petition today to the Federal Parliament
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  Speaker 2: and I'll present that when we come back for the
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  Speaker 2: next session of parliament later in the year. But essentially
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  Speaker 2: the government said it would implement the recommendations and continue
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  Speaker 2: to fund the working women's centers, but in the May
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  Speaker 2: budget there was only one hundred thousand dollars for the
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  Speaker 2: Anti Working Women's Center, which basically meant that they weren't
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  Speaker 2: able to do much at all, weren't able to help
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  Speaker 2: many territory women at all. You know, they need more
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  Speaker 2: like nine hundred thousand a year to fully represent women
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  Speaker 2: who need those services. So we're going to launch this petition.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to continue to call on the federal government.
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  Speaker 2: The NT Working Women's Center would have already folded if
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  Speaker 2: it had not been for the support of the NT government.
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  Speaker 2: So Anti Government is popping them up at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: But the federal government obviously they should be investing in
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  Speaker 2: important jobs like these that help our fellow Territorians, but
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  Speaker 2: instead they're defunding an organization that they committed to funding.
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  Speaker 2: So this petition will help to keep the issue front
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  Speaker 2: of mine for the federal government down here in Canberra.
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  Speaker 2: And if we get this funding in for the NT
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  Speaker 2: Working Women's Center, they can be able to continue helping
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  Speaker 2: Territory women when they're sort of facing really difficult times.
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  Speaker 1: So, Louke, where can people view that petition If they
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  Speaker 1: are listening this morning and thinking, do you know what
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  Speaker 1: this is a good idea? I want to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that I support it. Where can they head to or
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  Speaker 1: what can they do?
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  Speaker 2: They can just head to my placebook page. I'll be
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  Speaker 2: speaking in the Federal Parliament about the petition and the
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  Speaker 2: reasons for it at just before question time today and
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  Speaker 2: then so I'll be putting that speech up with the
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  Speaker 2: link of where people can go to sign up to
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  Speaker 2: the petition. And just thanks to everyone who over the
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  Speaker 2: years have been continually supporting the Anti Working Women's Center.
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  Speaker 2: We have kept it alive so it can keep helping
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  Speaker 2: territory women. But we're going to need this petition to
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  Speaker 2: pressure the government to put its hand in its pocket.
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  Speaker 2: And when we consider how much money has been going
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  Speaker 2: out from the federal government two companies that didn't need
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  Speaker 2: job Keeper that got in any way billions of dollars,
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  Speaker 2: you know they can less than one million. We'll keep
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  Speaker 2: this vital service going in the territory, so they should
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  Speaker 2: do the right thing and properly fun the NT Working
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  Speaker 2: Women's Center.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Luke Gosling, it is always good to catch up
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  Speaker 1: with you. I really appreciate your time this morning and
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  Speaker 1: letting us know a little bit more about the situation
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  Speaker 1: with the NT Working Women's Center.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Katie just quickly for all the veterans out there.
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  Speaker 2: The time is really getting short now for us to
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  Speaker 2: try and get the last of these interpreters out. But
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to let them know that we're doing
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  Speaker 2: everything we can down here to make sure that they
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  Speaker 2: get out before the Teleiban closed down the airport to evacuation.
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  Speaker 1: Where is that at at the moment, Luke. I know
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  Speaker 1: that it's a bloody terrible situation. I think all of
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  Speaker 1: us agree that, but where are things at with the interpreters.
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  Speaker 2: It's shocking, Katie. I've been helping some veteran mates of
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  Speaker 2: mine get their interpreters out and last night we just
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  Speaker 2: got the news at one of the interpreters with their
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  Speaker 2: family on the way to the airport was bashed by
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  Speaker 2: the Taliban. His fifteen year old daughter had a head
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  Speaker 2: split open by a rifle, but at the hands of
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  Speaker 2: the Taliban, his wife was whipped. It's really shocking stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And they can't There are some that are at the
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  Speaker 2: gate trying to get through. They've got visas to come
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  Speaker 2: back to Australia, they can't get in, and there are
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  Speaker 2: some that can't even get to the gate. So these
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  Speaker 2: people that gave us this loyal service. The window of
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  Speaker 2: time we've got to get them out is closing. It's
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  Speaker 2: all been too late, too little, too late. But thanks
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  Speaker 2: again to all the ADF people on the ground, the
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  Speaker 2: defact people, the home affairs people. They're doing the best
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  Speaker 2: they can, but it's a really difficult situation on the
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  Speaker 2: ground and we just need to just continue to try
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  Speaker 2: in these last forty eight hours or so to get
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  Speaker 2: the people that have got visas into the airport and
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  Speaker 2: on the planes for safety.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like it is a really really dangerous situation for
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  Speaker 1: them trying to get on those flights and bloody frightening.
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  Speaker 1: Luke Gosling, thank you very much for your time this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks you, Tom, Katie, thank you