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Speaker 1: Update for you from the mount. We've all seen the

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Speaker 1: land movement in the frantic search. Of course, Mark Mitchell

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Speaker 1: is the Minister for Emergency Management and is with us

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Speaker 1: morning morning, Mike. Are we any closer this morning to

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Speaker 1: where we need to be?

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Speaker 2: Well, they will be closer because obviously they're working through

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Speaker 2: the night and there you know that there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of earth that's come down, destroyed buildings, camp events and caravans,

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Speaker 2: so you know, and it's a it's a difficult and

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Speaker 2: challenging environment, but they're working as hard as they and

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Speaker 2: as fast as they can.

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Speaker 1: Any sort of timeline as to when we get to

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Speaker 1: where we need to be.

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Speaker 2: No, I haven't been given a timeline and they just

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Speaker 2: they'll just keep working and keep going until they've recovered

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Speaker 2: and got everyone out of there.

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Speaker 1: What's the systems, the responses you've seen this week, the

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Speaker 1: delivery of help and when it was needed, has it worked?

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Speaker 1: Is it working?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been outstanding, you know, right from the mayors

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Speaker 2: and councils, local cdium groups, community groups, IW and HAPU.

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Speaker 2: Of course, our first responders are always outstanding. The best

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Speaker 2: response to these events is holy community and get better

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Speaker 2: as that better at that as a country, and I've

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Speaker 2: seen that. I've been up and down the country the

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Speaker 2: last week, and I've seen that ex of bravery. Of course,

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Speaker 2: we get tragedies like this because unfortunately we've had so

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Speaker 2: much weather and rain that the ground had lost the

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Speaker 2: ability to absorb anymore. And that's why we've just seen

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Speaker 2: a messive amunt of slips sort of right down our

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Speaker 2: eastern seaboardrod.

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Speaker 1: Which brings me to the question. It seems to me

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Speaker 1: we've got two different stories, the mount story and obviously

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Speaker 1: Papamo Welcome Bay tragedy. So there's that, but then there's

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Speaker 1: that more general story that there are parts of this

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Speaker 1: country that you've got to start asking some serious questions

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Speaker 1: about how many people live there, how many roads we're

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Speaker 1: going to repair, how long are we going to do

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Speaker 1: this for, and whether we need to get stuck into

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Speaker 1: a fairly serious conversation, don't.

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Speaker 2: You Yeah, so that, yes, I agree, that's a much

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Speaker 2: harder and broader conversation that we had between central and

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Speaker 2: local governments and communities, because yes, you know, inundation, adaptation,

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, those are all serious questions that

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Speaker 2: we have to ask, and we have to be brave

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Speaker 2: enough to deal with. There's quite at Simon Watts sort

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Speaker 2: of hidden up quite a bit of work around that.

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Speaker 2: I'm supporting them, and of course local governments have turned

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Speaker 2: their mind to that into doing a few bit of

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Speaker 2: work on them as well.

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Speaker 1: But for today at the Mount, we simply have to

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Speaker 1: let them do their work and wait.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's very tough. It's obviously, you know, very

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Speaker 2: somber mood. As I was leaving, was talking to one

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Speaker 2: of the police officers that just broke down in tears

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Speaker 2: that there's a lot of emotion. Everyone is trying to

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Speaker 2: wrap as much support around the families as we can

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Speaker 2: and try and shoulder as much as we can with

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Speaker 2: them because as you can imagine, when you've got loved

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Speaker 2: ones trapped in a landslide, the waiting is torturous.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, go well, I make appreciate it very much and

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Speaker 1: to pass on our best to all concerned. Mark Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: who is in the Bay of course this morning.

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