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Speaker 1: You've got Jason Lauren. Clint's here from the newsroom as well. Hey,

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Speaker 1: speaking of which, Clint a lot of time in your

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Speaker 1: news I hear you covering ramping. Ambulance ramping is a

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Speaker 1: story here in Melbourne, which.

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Speaker 2: By the way, occurs when paramedics are made to wait

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Speaker 2: at hospitals at the entrance because they can't actually admit

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Speaker 2: the patient into the hospital because there's no room.

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Speaker 1: And I've got a mate who's a paramedic and he

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Speaker 1: was saying sometimes in his whole shift he might only

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Speaker 1: attend to patients because most of the time he could

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Speaker 1: spend four hours sitting there just next to the stretcher

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Speaker 1: at the hospital waiting for admission, which is crazy, and

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Speaker 1: that means the ambulance is just sitting in the loading dock.

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Speaker 1: I experienced this firsthand yesterday. It was late yesterday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: I had what I call thirty minutes of freedom. The

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Speaker 1: missus said, if you want to get out of here

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Speaker 1: for thirty minutes, I know you want to do some

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Speaker 1: work on your phone, why don't you go up the

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Speaker 1: street grab a beer. So went up to the East

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Speaker 1: Boundary Hotel just on Center Road there in Bentley and

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Speaker 1: as I turned into the car park. I noticed an

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Speaker 1: elderly lady lying face down in the car park. There

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Speaker 1: was a staff member from the pub standing next to her,

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Speaker 1: and he was just making sure no cars hit her.

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Speaker 1: And I quickly got out of the car and ran

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Speaker 1: over to see if I could help. Was she on

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Speaker 1: the road, No, she was on the bitchaman, but in

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Speaker 1: the car park. Oh gosh, And I've run over and

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Speaker 1: she was conscious. And I said to the guy at

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Speaker 1: worked at the pub, who did an amazing job, like

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Speaker 1: the staff at the hotel were fantastic. And he was

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Speaker 1: sitting there and I said, what's happened? He said, oh,

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Speaker 1: she's fall and her hips given away. And I've just

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Speaker 1: rung triple O and I was like, okay, and remember

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Speaker 1: it late, you staff to know it like about five o'clock.

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Speaker 1: So it's getting cold really fast. Yeah, and thank god

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Speaker 1: I had all these jumpers, the kids jumpers and jackets

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Speaker 1: and bloody, all their skills will give a still in

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Speaker 1: the boots. I've run over to the car to grab

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Speaker 1: all the jackets and we've put them over her to

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Speaker 1: try and warm her up. He said, I said, you know,

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Speaker 1: should we get her off the bitchmen? He said, well,

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Speaker 1: Triple O said, they're going to get us an ambulance

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Speaker 1: when they can, but we shouldn't move her.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because you know, I know it's such a tricky one,

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Speaker 3: but you've just got to do what they say, because

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Speaker 3: your instinct is to get her somewhere warm and into safety.

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Speaker 1: There she's crying in pain, and you're saying when they

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Speaker 1: can wait for this? I said, when did you call

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Speaker 1: the ambulance and he said, I've actually been here with

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Speaker 1: her for twenty minutes already. So I called Triple O

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Speaker 1: straight away because I could, like, in the two minutes

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Speaker 1: that I was there, I could see her breathing starting

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Speaker 1: to deteriorate, and you could, you know, you could see

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Speaker 1: the pain really setting in. And I've rung and I said,

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Speaker 1: I'm checking on an ambulance. They've said, yep, they looked

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Speaker 1: up the job and they said, yep, we're trying to

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Speaker 1: get you one when one becomes available. And I'm like,

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Speaker 1: do you have any idea how long? And they're like,

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Speaker 1: we just don't know. And I'm like, well, she's been

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Speaker 1: laying here for twenty minutes, the pain's increasing. Okay, call

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Speaker 1: us back if anything changes. We hit the forty five

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Speaker 1: minute mark. It's getting bloody cold. Now I ring back again,

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Speaker 1: Triple O. We're still trying to get your an ambulance.

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Speaker 1: We'll let you know when one becomes available. Just under

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Speaker 1: an hour. And the third time I called Triple O

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Speaker 1: and this is not the Triple O operator's fault or

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Speaker 1: anything like that. And it's not the ambo's fault because

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Speaker 1: they're going from job to job again. The third call,

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Speaker 1: they were like, you're next on the list unless something

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Speaker 1: else is a priority. We'll try and get you an

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Speaker 1: ambulance a couple of minutes later, so we've hit an

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Speaker 1: hour pretty much. A couple of minutes later, an ambulance

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Speaker 1: pulls into the car park. The AMBO gets out and says,

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Speaker 1: what's the situation. By the way, I'm alone. I don't

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Speaker 1: have a partner, so now it's his one. The guy

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Speaker 1: the van, so thank god there was other people around

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Speaker 1: and stuff. So we helped get her onto you know,

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Speaker 1: lift her onto the stretcher and the ambel was doing

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Speaker 1: a great job. He gave her the old green whistle.

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Speaker 1: We see him on her rescue, and he was like,

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Speaker 1: let's just get her into the ambulance. You know that way,

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Speaker 1: you know, she's off the bitchman. And we got her

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Speaker 1: into the ambulance and and I left there and he said, look,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna not drive with her. I'm just going to

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Speaker 1: give a pain relation. We wait for another ambulance to come,

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Speaker 1: which God only knows how long that would be. I

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Speaker 1: left there so angry and so frustrated, and thought, if

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Speaker 1: that was my mum on the ground, I would be

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Speaker 1: mortified to know that she just sat there. In part, she.

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Speaker 2: Should be mortified, shocking regardless.

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Speaker 1: Mate, and she's like she was in a seventies. She

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Speaker 1: was deteriorating, pretty bloody bad. Something has got to be

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Speaker 1: fixed in this story. Real problem was like, that's crazy.

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Speaker 2: The health system is under immense strain right now, and

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Speaker 2: questions obviously need to be asked.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, like and you know we're paying out taxes.

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Speaker 3: Say why he was on his own Jase though, because

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Speaker 3: that because the resources weren't there for you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he just mentioned we're so thin today, because my

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Speaker 1: paramedic mate has told me before. When it's so dire,

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Speaker 1: sometimes they get people from the military to go with

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Speaker 1: them as like the second person in the ambulance Lisa.

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Speaker 3: Maybe that's what we need to do though, because you

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Speaker 3: can't be sending one person out and waiting an hour.

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Speaker 1: It was discussed. It broke my heart for this poor

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Speaker 1: lady and she just kept looking at me, going, but

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Speaker 1: when's it coming? Like it's almost been an hour.

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Speaker 3: Oh, you must have felt so helpless.

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Speaker 2: Man Thomas guys with the Victorian Health Minister.

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Speaker 1: Well, Marianne has bloody questions to answer. Let me tell you,

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Speaker 1: I'd love to get her on the show. We'll reach

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Speaker 1: out to her office and I'll see if she'll come on.

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Speaker 1: But if anybody need an ambulance yesterday, good luck getting one.

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Speaker 3: It's an actually, And you know, we see these ambulances

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Speaker 3: all over Victoria and they've got writing all over them

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Speaker 3: saying you know, I'm from Bendigo, where are you finding me?

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Speaker 3: And they're being found in Frankston and all over the

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Speaker 3: place because our ambos are working so hard. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: there's got to be a fix. It's not acceptable, my mate.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it'll be on like a sixteen hour shift and

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Speaker 1: then get dispatched to a car accident. I could see

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Speaker 1: you now. Everyone makes mistakes on no sleep. I don't

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Speaker 1: want someone working on me if I've been in a

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Speaker 1: car accident, if they've been going for sixteen hours, like

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Speaker 1: that's what mistakes are going to happen.

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Speaker 2: Well, just last week, that same health minister had to

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Speaker 2: dip into an emergency fund to help bail out hospitals

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Speaker 2: in Victoria Public Hospitals four hundred and twenty two million

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Speaker 2: dollars they pumped into hospitals at the last minute because

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Speaker 2: they were just so sick.

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Speaker 1: They need to fix it. We are, like we always say,

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Speaker 1: you know, is Victoria in a good situation at the moment?

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Speaker 1: Are we're doing okay? We're bloody not. That was disgusting

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Speaker 1: and it's just it's not right. It really isn't. And

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Speaker 1: but look, thanks.

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Speaker 3: Good on you for helping Jane.

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Speaker 1: No, the staff for the staff were on it. The

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Speaker 1: staff were awesome. They were there, they were all across it.

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Speaker 1: They did a great job. At the east bench, he's okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Like when I left, he said, look, she she should

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Speaker 1: be okayble when they put her into the ambulance, you

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Speaker 1: could clearly see the poor things. Hip was just seeing

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Speaker 1: the terrible, terrible, terrible. But yeah, and the ambos did

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Speaker 1: a great job and everything, but the government who's in

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Speaker 1: charge need to pull their head in. Oh, here we go.

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Speaker 1: Victoria's called through from Mill Park morning there. How are

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Speaker 1: you good things?

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Speaker 4: How are you?

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Speaker 1: We're good? You work as a nurse, Yeah, I do, so.

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Speaker 1: I can't even imagine how bad is for you guys

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Speaker 1: inside the hospitals.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's no one to say, Like, it's awful for

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Speaker 4: the ambos and everything, but it's also really awful for

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Speaker 4: the nurses and doctors and people working in these crazy

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Speaker 4: emergency departments and you know, people waiting hours and hours

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Speaker 4: and hours.

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Speaker 1: One hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: So are you seeing this firsthand with the ambulance ramping

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Speaker 2: as well?

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Speaker 4: Yeah for sure.

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Speaker 1: Okay, how about no more wanky politician dinners and every

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Speaker 1: cent actually goes into the people and healthcare in this

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Speaker 1: country because I'm pulling Yeah, I'm really annoyed about it.

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Speaker 1: Anytime you want to join the show, thirteen twenty four

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Speaker 1: ten is our number. It's just gone to six past date.

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Speaker 1: Gonna be good.

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Speaker 2: Jason Lauren, Jason Lauren wake up feeling good on over

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Speaker 2: one hundred Jason Lauren bollygood.

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Speaker 1: I'm on Socials