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Speaker 1: Now joining me on the line right now, the Financial

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Speaker 1: Information Services Officer with Services Australia, Justin Bott. Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you, Justin, Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for joining us now, Justin. Obviously plenty of

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Speaker 1: talk all around the nation. I think you'd say about

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Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen digital certificates which are going to be

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Speaker 1: used within Australia. Where are we ash with these at

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Speaker 1: this point?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So for those people who are Internet capable, have

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Speaker 2: their smartphones, the best thing to do to download your

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Speaker 2: COVID nineteen digital certificate, which is approved that you've had

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Speaker 2: both of your vaccines, is to create that my gov account.

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Speaker 2: And the way that you created mi gov account is

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Speaker 2: to go to the my gov website, which is my

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Speaker 2: dot gov dot Auormy dot gov dot Au. You follow

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Speaker 2: the prompts create yourself a MyGov account. Once you've done that,

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Speaker 2: you need to sign into the my gov account and

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Speaker 2: you need to link Medicare to your my go account.

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Speaker 2: So you're going to have some choices there. You'll see

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Speaker 2: the Strength Taxation Office, you'll see centling. We want you

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Speaker 2: to select on Medicare and once you've link Medicare to

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Speaker 2: your my Go account. You've then got everything you need

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Speaker 2: right there to be able to get your COVID nineteen

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Speaker 2: digital certificate, to print it off if you need to

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Speaker 2: print it off, to download it onto your phone so

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Speaker 2: that it's actually sitting in your Google wallet, you sorry,

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Speaker 2: your Apple wallet or Google pay, so you've got that

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Speaker 2: evidence anywhere that you go whenever you need to, in

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Speaker 1: So basically that's able. That's already happening right now for

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Speaker 1: anybody out there listening who does need to be able

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Speaker 1: to show that vaccine passport, whether it's in their workplace

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Speaker 1: or to travel or to do anything. Really, it is there.

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Speaker 1: It's ready to go if you've got a MiG of account.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's right now. Over twelve point three million

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Speaker 2: people have actually done it. Well, yeah, it's we've had

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Speaker 2: in the sty Over fifteen million people are fully vaccimated.

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Speaker 2: Over twelve point three million people have already accessed their

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Speaker 2: COVID nineteen digital certificate, so it is a very successful process.

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Speaker 2: The fun story, Katie is I had to go with

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Speaker 2: my son to get our haircut. Yep, he's fifteen. He

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Speaker 2: has to have his own digital certificate. We were going

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Speaker 2: and I've done mine, but we've forgotten all about his.

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Speaker 2: And it was a ten minute drove him the car

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Speaker 2: to get to the headdressers, and in that ten minutes

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Speaker 2: on his phone he was able to create himself with

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Speaker 2: my GOV account, He was able to link it to

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Speaker 2: his Medicare record, and he was able to download his

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Speaker 2: COVID nineteen digital certificate onto his phone, so that by

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Speaker 2: the time we arrived at their headdresses, he had the

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Speaker 2: evidence in his pocket ready to go.

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Speaker 1: So nice and easy.

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Speaker 2: The people has worked really really well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, nice and easy. Hey, with with that twelve point

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Speaker 1: three million people who've already downloaded it or already done that,

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Speaker 1: created the accountant and been able to access their passport.

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Speaker 1: Is there any do you how many of those are

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Speaker 1: from the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 2: I don't have the figures of the Northern Territory with

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Speaker 2: you right now, unfortunately, sorry about that one.

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Speaker 1: It's okay, that's fine.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but what we're saying is because the other

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Speaker 2: download it. So it's really important to also let Northern

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Speaker 2: give the Australian Immunization Register a call. So the Australian

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Speaker 2: Immunization Register is the organization that's under Services Australia and

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Speaker 2: MAY for years and years have been responsible for maintaining

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Speaker 2: They went to be training unionization edity to do that.

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Speaker 2: But they're also the ones that have the evidence that

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Speaker 2: on one eight hundred six five three eight zero nine.

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Speaker 2: Their number again is one eight hundred six three eight

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Speaker 2: So my second little while, so if you've got an

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Speaker 1: Now, justin obviously there's been lots of concern from some

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Speaker 1: And when they, you know, go into a business, what

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Speaker 2: Look, part of the reason that we're encouraging people to

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Speaker 2: So it's very focused on just providing evidence for that.

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Speaker 2: presently working with the Northern Territory governments using the Territory

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Speaker 2: so that one app has got all that information for

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Speaker 1: Of the So justin just tell us with that work

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Speaker 2: Well, that's going to be Unfortunately, up to the territory

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Speaker 2: But when it comes to that checking out, it's really

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Speaker 1: To speak to you this morning, and good to find

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Speaker 1: and even when you're traveling overseas, you're really going to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and on that and we've just been trying to

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Speaker 2: paper version that Savili's can print it off and are

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that is another option, but unfortunately not all

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Speaker 2: If they can't, then yeat bang you've got it all

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Well, I always appreciate your time justin thanks

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, thanks so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Thank you