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Speaker 1: Going into our third week of lockdown. Home schooling starts

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Speaker 1: today for a lot of parents around New South Wales.

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Speaker 1: How long will this lockdown last? People playing by the rules.

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Speaker 1: We all know that the first couple of weeks were

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Speaker 1: disappointing because we weren't really well.

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Speaker 2: We weren't really a bit of a warm up, wasn't it.

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Speaker 3: We weren't hard lucky.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't a hard lockdown. We needed it now and

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Speaker 1: Minister for Police and Emergency Services joins Minister David Elliot.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, David, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Are people biding by the rules now, David? Have you

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Speaker 1: found over the last few days they're finally starting to listen?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they are. It was really good on the weekend

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Speaker 3: where we saw significant levels of complied people are doing

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Speaker 3: the right thing. I think they've got the message. Police

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Speaker 3: are still giving so many tickets now, which is disappointing

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Speaker 3: and man, they don't like giving the mat. We spent

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Speaker 3: obviously most of last week working with the community to

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Speaker 3: make sure that they knew exactly what their obligations were,

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Speaker 3: and we've also got to explain to them why that's there.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we want to get the pubs open more

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Speaker 3: than the next folks, so to make sure that people

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Speaker 3: know that this is for their benefits.

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Speaker 2: Dave, just to confirm a couple of things. We're discussing

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Speaker 2: it off air. Before leaving your home. If you are exercising,

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Speaker 2: is it five or ten k radius?

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Speaker 3: We have at the moment it's ten k but obviously

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Speaker 3: the preferences to make sure that you say, well within

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Speaker 3: that and obviously stay within your local government area. Because

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Speaker 3: city of the size of Sydney, we've got to we've

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Speaker 3: got to somehow divide the city up so that we

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Speaker 3: know where the priorities are and where the risks are.

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Speaker 3: And that's why we're doing it by local governing area,

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Speaker 3: that's your local council area. But you know, I mean,

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Speaker 3: I'm saying to my family and friends, listen, you know

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Speaker 3: there's a good footpath at the end of your house,

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Speaker 3: so why don't you use that instead of having the

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Speaker 3: need to go anywhere Like we saw a bond BI

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Speaker 3: a couple of weekends ago.

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Speaker 1: David also, a great opportunity we saw Melbourne's last lockdown

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Speaker 1: was only two weeks, but it was one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons you could leave your house was going to go

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Speaker 1: and get vaccinated. Sydney side is we need obviously more

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Speaker 1: vaxx nation. Scott Morrison announced the other day that fires

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Speaker 1: are going to send more over the next couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks just to fast track some of

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Speaker 1: those vaccinations. But we need more hubs, David, We need

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Speaker 1: people and I think there would be people that would

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Speaker 1: be more than happy to go and line up for

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Speaker 1: a few hours just to get the jab in this

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Speaker 1: hard lockdown? Are we How far away were these extra

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Speaker 1: vaccination hubs to get it done?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 3: Yes, spot on, And that's while we're happening a new

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Speaker 3: one at Fairfield, there's obviously a big one at home Bush.

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Speaker 3: There's one going to be opened up in the Hunt

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Speaker 3: of Alley and Newcastle very soon. And I think what

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Speaker 3: you'll find is that as we get access to more

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Speaker 3: and more of the vaccines, that more and more of

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Speaker 3: these will will be opened up. But you know, there's

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Speaker 3: nothing stopping everybody in the first instance to go to

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Speaker 3: their local GP. I got mine done. I had my

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Speaker 3: second one last Saturday through my local GPS, so that

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Speaker 3: should be your first instance. But listen, I think the

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Speaker 3: sixteenth of jelast game I was announced it's going to

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Speaker 3: be getting a whole lot of a big shipment from

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Speaker 3: the US from spises. So I actually think it's going

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Speaker 3: to be like the like the spread of the disease itself.

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Speaker 3: You'll see this expondential increase in people wanting to get

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Speaker 3: it and going to get it because you know, there's

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Speaker 3: no reason if we get up to a million a week,

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Speaker 3: there's no reason why we can't have a very very

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Speaker 3: normal spring in Sydney, which is what everybody's looking forward to.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Dave, the one question you don't want to be asked,

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Speaker 2: how long do you think this lockdown will last?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's you know, it is the eternal question

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Speaker 3: for us. It really depends on today in the next day.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if we keep going up, then then you know,

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Speaker 3: it's always going to be two or three or four

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Speaker 3: weeks from when we continue to go up once we

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Speaker 3: start going down. And that's really just the ones in

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Speaker 3: the community. The cases that are you know, I say,

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Speaker 3: they're pretty cool. We're not really necessarily worried about them

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Speaker 3: unless they're for medical reasons. They've got some sort of

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Speaker 3: sense of urgency about them. But I think if we

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Speaker 3: can get you know, if we can get our proverbal

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Speaker 3: in one sock, we'll be able to see a sea

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Speaker 3: light at the end of the tunnel. So that's a reduction.

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Speaker 3: If we sub to reduction in numbers, new numbers over

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Speaker 3: the course of this week, well then you know, you

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Speaker 3: give yourself between two and four weeks. That's pretty much

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Speaker 3: what should David just quickly?

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Speaker 1: How far off were we? And look, we can't do

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Speaker 1: it at the moment because people can't get vaccinations. Not

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Speaker 1: everyone can get them yet. But let's say we get

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Speaker 1: to sixty seventy percent vaccinated we're seeing in the UK

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Speaker 1: and the US at the moment. Can't we get a visa?

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Speaker 1: Can't we get a vaccination passport? Right? You want to

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Speaker 1: go and see a movie, you need to be vaccinated.

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Speaker 1: You want to go see a music gig, you want

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Speaker 1: to go traveling to state to see your parents, you

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Speaker 1: need a vaccination. How far away are we going to

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Speaker 1: do that? At some stage? Are you guys talking about that?

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Speaker 3: I think you probably, I think you probably find that

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Speaker 3: will occur. But because I've pushed that in blood too,

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Speaker 3: I thought to myself, you know, I'm bullet for now

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Speaker 3: to I've got to jabs both my vaccines. Can I

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Speaker 3: can't go to footy and go to the g A

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Speaker 3: coen plan. But the concern, of course, is that just

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Speaker 3: because you've got the vaccine doesn't mean you can't carry it.

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Speaker 3: That's why they're saying you don't have seventy percent of

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Speaker 3: the population vaccinated, because I can still go out and

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Speaker 3: even though I'm vaccinated, I don't and I don't feel

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Speaker 3: any symptoms whatsoever, And there's no way in the world

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Speaker 3: that I'm going to go to a hospital or even have

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Speaker 3: to take any medication. But I can still come home

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Speaker 3: and give it to the mum and the kids. So

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Speaker 3: until seventy percent of the population, that's the magic number,

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Speaker 3: they're really not going to what I'm now, Dave forty

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Speaker 3: odd say there. I think twenty five because.

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Speaker 2: We've got around that's first job, first job, around ten

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Speaker 2: million people.

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Speaker 1: We're only we're under ten percent, aren't we for fully vaccinated?

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Speaker 3: I think it's about it. I think about fourth percent.

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Speaker 3: But it is going up by the day. And there's

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Speaker 3: I said, it's going to be like a title wave.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, once these new jobs come, once these new vaccines arrive,

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Speaker 3: everybody is going to be lining up to get it,

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Speaker 3: and the availability of it will increase as well. So

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Speaker 3: there are you know, sixteenth of July the day given

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Speaker 3: for the new ones. They're telling you know, the medicos

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Speaker 3: are telling us, you know, once once they're available, we

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Speaker 3: get the pharmacists to pinch you. We get we get

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Speaker 3: the doctors, we get the vaccine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, roll it out hard.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's for anyone out there, anyone listening. I mean

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Speaker 1: the government website my GARV. You can go there as well.

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Speaker 1: People are having a few problems without getting a vaccination appointment.

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Speaker 1: If not, Tommy said yesterday health engine dot com, do

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Speaker 1: I use a good one, because that will then tell

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Speaker 1: you your local gps that do have the vaccinations, bring them,

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Speaker 1: book yourself in.

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Speaker 2: Even also your GP can tell you other gps if

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Speaker 2: they're not doing it, they can do it. And I

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Speaker 2: had a bit of trouble with the website, Dave, and

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Speaker 2: it took me maybe three or four goes till I

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Speaker 2: was able to register and make sure I could lock

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Speaker 2: in a date. So if you are struggling on the website,

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Speaker 2: just keep refreshing and have another crack. You'll get there.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. But as I said, and Premier and the Prime

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Speaker 3: Minister of cent and the Chief Medical Officer, if you're

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Speaker 3: over the age of forty, and you know you're like

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Speaker 3: a punt. We'll go for the az.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I had.

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Speaker 3: I had the Astrosineka, the first one. I had the

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Speaker 3: second twenty four hours. I felt I got to be

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Speaker 3: hit by a bus, but I went away as quickly

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Speaker 3: as it came, and I had the second one on Saturday.

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Speaker 3: And listen, I'm as Rider's right. I think I did

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Speaker 3: a six k six k walk and that afternoon.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think it's too much of a punt.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, you just you just get No, No, it's

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Speaker 1: not so I wouldn't use that.

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Speaker 3: I really don't think it is. I think it's, you know,

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Speaker 3: let's let's just get get it. If it means we're

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Speaker 3: going to get on with the job, let's get on.

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Speaker 1: Let's get well said. Thank you time, Dave.

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Speaker 3: Always a pleasure. Thanks guys, Its Whipper