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Speaker 1: Here at the entertainment center for the RAA's Street Smart

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Speaker 1: High program. There's a lot going on here. Some four

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Speaker 1: thousand kids today, twelve thousand over three days, have filed

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Speaker 1: through in the last hour or so and going through

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Speaker 1: a simulation. The morning officially opened by the Police Minister

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Speaker 1: just a few minutes ago, he joins me. Now, Dan Creegan,

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Speaker 1: good morning, and good to have you here as well.

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Speaker 1: Can I just yeah, we'll get your mic tested in

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Speaker 1: just a second. Make sure you run. I think you are,

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Speaker 1: mister Creigan. Obviously an important message to get out to

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Speaker 1: these teenagers. What is it? What did you tell them

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Speaker 1: this morning?

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Speaker 2: Well, thanks, Matthew. It's really important to be here, and

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Speaker 2: we really appreciate the partnership with the RAA. This is

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Speaker 2: a viral program as part of our road safety messaging.

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Speaker 2: We need a partnership with young people. These are our

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Speaker 2: future road users. They're enjoying all of the excitement and

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Speaker 2: freedom that comes with getting your license and looking forward

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Speaker 2: to the challenges that come. But even though there's been

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Speaker 2: significant road safety improvements achieved in recent years, road users

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Speaker 2: continue to be overrepresented in road trauma statistics, and I

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Speaker 2: wanted to make clear to the young people here today,

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Speaker 2: and we want to just have that partnership make people

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Speaker 2: aged sixteen to twenty four years make up eleven percent

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Speaker 2: of our population but accounted for nineteen percent of all

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Speaker 2: lives lost in nineteen and serious injuries in South Australia

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Speaker 2: for the years nineteen to twenty three. So if we're

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Speaker 2: going to change our road safety outcomes, and we're determined

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Speaker 2: to do so, it has to be in partnership with

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Speaker 1: I've mentioned this to a few people who've come through,

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Speaker 1: including the RAA and polices. Well, let me ask the

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Speaker 1: same thing to you. When we see fatalities, and often

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Speaker 1: it's people in their twenties, people who you would have

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Speaker 1: thought in school would have come through here, many very

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Speaker 1: likely did. And the answer seems to be, you know,

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Speaker 1: that split second, wrong decision, just making the wrong choice

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Speaker 1: at the wrong time. Why otherwise are people involved in

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Speaker 1: these accidents when they've been through progue rams like this,

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Speaker 1: the ads, the messaging constantly at them saying don't drink, drive,

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Speaker 1: don't speed, don't be on your phone distracted. Yet it

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Speaker 1: still happens over and over.

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Speaker 2: It does, and we're determined to change drive the behavior

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Speaker 2: we know for example, that distraction can kill people. We've

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Speaker 2: obviously had the mobile phone detection cameras turned on, so

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Speaker 2: there are different policing methods, but you're not always going

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Speaker 2: to be policed on the roads. There'll be times when

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Speaker 2: you just need to make sure you're doing the right thing.

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Speaker 2: And the messaging is important, but what we know is

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Speaker 2: changing behavior requires that partnership. So there's twelve thousand people

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Speaker 2: that we can engage with over the course of this program,

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Speaker 2: and we think the RAA is doing an amazing job

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Speaker 2: and bringing really impactful speakers so that we can consider

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Speaker 2: these things with our future drivers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, indeed, that's the important thing, isn't it getting so

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Speaker 1: many people aware of it? It is quite intensive in there.

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Speaker 1: It is very emotional, isn't it in terms of seeing, well,

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Speaker 1: someone who's died in a mock scene and ambulance coming out, fieries, etc.

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Speaker 1: Is there a broken neck involved the whole thing? And

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Speaker 1: talking with Charles Mountain earlier from the RAA says, the

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Speaker 1: chats with the then relatives and everything, you know, people

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Speaker 1: acting it out, but it's all based on reality. This

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Speaker 2: It is real families that are impacted, real school communities, real

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Speaker 2: regional communities and first responders. And I think everybody here

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Speaker 2: will know. I've heard of somebody who's lost their life

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Speaker 2: to you in others. And so we're just hopeful that

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Speaker 2: having this conversation here and with the continued investment of

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Speaker 2: the RAA and the state government road safety, people just

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Speaker 2: think slightly differently second they get behind the wheel.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, Hey, the other announcement today involves the police grace

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Speaker 1: the horses. Now they have a new home, and I

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Speaker 1: understand they've been there for a little while because if

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Speaker 1: noticed a lot of earth moving gear going on through

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Speaker 1: a while. But official opening, I understand.

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Speaker 2: Jepscross, Yeah, Matthew, it was good to be there today

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Speaker 2: to see the grays. There's thirty two of ventilated stables,

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Speaker 2: there's a or weather arena, there's areas for ferriers obviously

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Speaker 2: hectare site. The old site was dated from nineteen fourteen

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Speaker 2: is a really significant site and we think that it'll

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Speaker 2: be used and appreciated by the horses for the long term.

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Speaker 1: There was a lot of fuss at the time. They

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Speaker 1: wasn't there moving them too far out of town. Now,

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Speaker 1: that was before you were the minister. But Chee you

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Speaker 1: look at that and think, well, they've got to be

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Speaker 1: ferried in. There's an area being constructed in the city

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Speaker 1: on you'd have to say that's prime real estate and

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Speaker 1: should be used for courts because we know they're overcrowded

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Speaker 2: There was a thorough examination of possible future sites and

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Speaker 2: the Police Commissioner today described the nineteen fourteen facilities theberden

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Speaker 2: is like having a horse in solitary confined. So I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure necessarily that these were the best facilities they

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Speaker 2: were at that particular location. Keep in mind that horses

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Speaker 2: are kept at your chunger as well, so that horses

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Speaker 2: have moved around as part of the program, part of

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Speaker 2: the Mounted Operations Unit, to ensure that they're in the

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Speaker 2: right location in any event. But Jep's Cross, if you

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Speaker 2: have an opportunity to head out there, as you say, Matthew,

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Speaker 2: you're able to observe some of the construction going on.

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Speaker 2: It's a magnificent facility. It won't just accommodate the horses,

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Speaker 2: but also the dogs. And we also we must keep

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Speaker 2: in mind that there's an over three billion dollar really

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Speaker 2: the state. There are milestones rolling out there right to

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Speaker 2: twenty thirty thirty one. It's a really significant investment. What

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Speaker 2: we want to make sure is out of this process

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Speaker 2: we have long term future for the Grays and looking

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Speaker 2: over the facilities today, there really are significant and magnificent.

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Speaker 1: Have police officers resigned because of the move out to

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Speaker 1: Jet's Gross There was concerned some wouldn't go and work

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Speaker 2: Well, we understand that it's a very popular occupation and

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Speaker 2: there's been significant interest and continues to be significant interest

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Speaker 2: in the mounted operations. You know, I won't come in

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Speaker 2: operational matters. That's probably a question for the Police Commissioner,

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Speaker 2: but it has been made plain to me that there

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Speaker 2: enjoyable it is to be working with these significant, magnificent creas.

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Speaker 1: Yeah they are. They are absolutely beautiful. The police grays

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Speaker 1: no doubt about that. But okay, so there's interest in

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Speaker 1: the mounted ups. So you can't get police for general ops,

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Speaker 2: Just looking at the facilities today, why wouldn't you want

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Speaker 2: to work there? It really is magnificent.

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Speaker 1: How should are police now still two hundred positions?

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Speaker 2: It's less than that. There are challenges in police recruitment.

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Speaker 2: They're challenges right across Australia and similar jurisdictions. We have

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Speaker 2: the lowest attrition rate of any of our comparable state jurisdictions.

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Speaker 2: I think the Australian Federal Police has a slightly lower rate,

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Speaker 2: but they have different operations. We also have the highest

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Speaker 2: number of police by head of population. That's not to

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Speaker 2: discount the challenges that we have, but we know that

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Speaker 2: other jurisdictions are having these challenges. We're turning our minds

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Speaker 2: into very closely to this difficulty and the government's made

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Speaker 2: a substantial more than twelve million dollar investment to accelerate recruitment.

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Speaker 2: But there are challenges right across Australia and of course

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Speaker 2: in jurisdictions similar jurisdictions overseas.

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Speaker 1: The obvious question, and people will call in with this

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Speaker 1: is about safety. It's about not enough police responding where

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Speaker 1: they're needed. And you know we see Gooja Street, Heinley Street,

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Speaker 1: North Terrace over the last twelve months where there have

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Speaker 1: been issues and OK, you can move police around and

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Speaker 1: police do well, you don't do it. It's operational obviously,

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Speaker 1: but police do flood areas when they need to, but

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Speaker 1: it just pulls police away from other parts of the city.

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Speaker 2: We're determined to ensure that as a government, we're giving

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Speaker 2: the police the resources they need to accelerate their recruitment program.

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Speaker 2: We've seen a significant investment being made. There's some time

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Speaker 2: to run to see whether that investment realizes the gains

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Speaker 2: that we want it to, but there is a steady

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Speaker 2: increase in the number of recruits going through the academy.

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Speaker 2: We're pleased about that. We want to retain as many

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Speaker 2: experienced officers as we can as well. But as I say,

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Speaker 2: this is a nationwide challenge and in South Australia we

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Speaker 2: do have one of the lowest tratrition rates.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Dan Creegan, Police Minister, Road Safety Minister here

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Speaker 1: this morning Emergency Services as part of the RaaS Street

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Speaker 1: Smart High program, Day two of three and some twelve

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Speaker 1: thousand kids going through right over the three day program.

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Speaker 1: Would you like to see this incidentally, Minister extended to

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Speaker 1: five days as many schools as possible come through from

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Speaker 1: around the metro area, around the state.

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Speaker 2: Even or it's an impressive program, it is, it is.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing and I.

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Speaker 2: Must say, just being here it gives an opportunity to

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Speaker 2: see the messaging that's being delivered and the way in

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Speaker 2: which students are interacting with it. I mean, they're closely

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Speaker 2: engaged with the program here. It's really important. I guess

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Speaker 2: it'd be question for the RAS to where they want

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Speaker 2: to extend it for a few days, but what I've

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Speaker 2: been able to see here firsthand is amazing.

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Speaker 1: All Right, appreciate your time. Dan Cregan, police Minister, here

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Speaker 1: with me this morning