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Speaker 1: To Australia. We go Leslie Yeomen's good morning, Good morning Andrew.

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Speaker 1: So just like us, you've got schools closed because of

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Speaker 1: asbestos and sand.

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Speaker 2: We have this in the ACT around Canberra. We've got

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Speaker 2: more than seventy schools that have been closed because of

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Speaker 2: this catin sand, which is used in sort of arts

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Speaker 2: and crafts and play and apparently also it's been sold

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Speaker 2: in a lot of the large retailers like Target and Kmart.

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Speaker 2: They've done this big recall of the sand and these

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Speaker 2: seventy two schools across the ACT have been closed down

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Speaker 2: while further testing is being done. There's also it's also

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Speaker 2: been found in the Northern Territory and South Australia as well.

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Speaker 2: In South Australia, more than one hundred sites have been

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Speaker 2: identified as using the sand. Northern Territory haven't closed any

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Speaker 2: schools as yet, but they have closed some classes so

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Speaker 2: that further testing can be done on this sand. So

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Speaker 2: it's a this as beestos that's been found in it.

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Speaker 2: It's called a tremolite asbestos and apparently it's found as

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Speaker 2: a natural sort of asbestos, but we're not really sure

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Speaker 2: exactly how bad it can be. They're still doing tests

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Speaker 2: on it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, China. Meanwhile, you've got a koala

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Speaker 1: colony in outback New South Wales which is under threat.

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Speaker 2: It is they've been doing some koala testing for koala

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Speaker 2: numbers in central western New South Wales in the outback,

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Speaker 2: and the researchers have found this really large colony of koalas.

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Speaker 2: The only trouble is it's in an area where there

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Speaker 2: is a coal mine that wants to expand, and the

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Speaker 2: coal mine is wanting to move into an area about

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Speaker 2: one hundred and or just over one hundred hectares of

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Speaker 2: where the koalas are now. The operators of the coal

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Speaker 2: mine say that they're aware of it and they're more

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Speaker 2: than happy to relocate koalas if they come into the

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Speaker 2: area that the coal mine wants to go to. But

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Speaker 2: the environmental researchers and the wildlife researchers are saying it

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Speaker 2: that's maybe not the best thing, because this new colony

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Speaker 2: has really surprised them because they haven't sort of done

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Speaker 2: a lot of workout in central New South Wales as

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Speaker 2: far as koala numbers have gone, and they've been really

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Speaker 2: pleasantly surprised that they've found this huge colony of Koala's

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Speaker 2: out there.

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Speaker 1: Yes, has anyone asked the Koala how they feel about

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Speaker 1: being moved? There? We go and I thank you Leslie

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Speaker 1: Yeomens all the very best. For more from earlier edition

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