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Speaker 1: Good news on building staff back home. The announcements are

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Speaker 1: turning into actual things. A six billion worth of major

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Speaker 1: infrastructure projects are set to go between now and Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Hospital laboratories, schools, amongst the mixed Four and a half

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Speaker 1: thousand jobs is what they're claiming. Barnie Yubin is the

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Speaker 1: executive director for the Northern Infrastructure Forum and as with us,

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Speaker 1: Barney morning, good morning. Is this a reheat or the

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Speaker 1: real deal? I mean, we knew this stuff was coming,

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Speaker 1: didn't we.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we did.

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Speaker 1: So.

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Speaker 2: Look on the other hand, on the one hand, is

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Speaker 2: a bit of a so what with it? I mean,

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Speaker 2: these these projects here, as you say, we're due to

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Speaker 2: be announced in any case, and arguably some of them

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Speaker 2: should have been announced earlier. But on the other hand,

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Speaker 2: what it shows is that we're getting through to delivery

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Speaker 2: on some pretty chunky projects and that is going to

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Speaker 2: be very welcome news.

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Speaker 1: How Chunk had given the pipeline. My understanding of the

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Speaker 1: ultimate pipeline of everybody building everything is, you know, hundreds

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Speaker 1: of billions of dollars. What is six buy? Does it

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Speaker 1: buy a lot of work and some good times for

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Speaker 1: a while?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, it certainly does, and projects like Otuck, it's

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Speaker 2: north north of within mail mailon link. Those are significant projects.

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Speaker 2: And and then when you add that, you know, we

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Speaker 2: are expecting to see ground broken on some pretty significant

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Speaker 2: road projects next year as well, and other social infrastructure projects,

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Speaker 2: prisons and the like. So so look, there certainly is

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Speaker 2: a bit of movement there and and you know, again

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Speaker 2: that's it's really good news in particular for the contractors

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Speaker 2: after a really lean period. The big question is how

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Speaker 2: long can it be sustained? How long can we sustain

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Speaker 2: a growing.

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Speaker 1: Pipeline to them, because what you're talking about with the

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Speaker 1: pipeline is we've got to get people lined up and

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Speaker 1: you know, the exodus to Australia and all that sort

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Speaker 1: of stuff. Is this a denton that does this help

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Speaker 1: the pipeline?

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Speaker 2: Look, it certainly is a start, but we all know

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Speaker 2: the scale of the work that is required to sort

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Speaker 2: of bridge the gap and meet the country's needs in

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Speaker 2: the years ahead. And you know, and that's the bit

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Speaker 2: where we need to see progress. You know, we need

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Speaker 2: we need to work through these changes to to planning,

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Speaker 2: to planning consenting regime. We need to you know, get

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Speaker 2: more consistency in policy making to stop these these sort

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Speaker 2: of flip flops between between one government the needs we

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Speaker 2: need to make better use of private capital.

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Speaker 1: All right, good to see it. I appreciate it very much. Barny.

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