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Speaker 1: Mix one O four point nine dot com dot you

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Speaker 1: for all the latest news and information. Now three sixty

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Speaker 1: with Katie Wolf. Everyone is listening Mix one oh four

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Speaker 2: The OZMAT team and the National Critical Care and Trauma

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Speaker 2: Response Center Executive Director lennataris well. He leads a phenomenal

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Speaker 2: forward team of OZMAT health specialists with an emergency vaccine

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Speaker 2: supply has touchdown, as I understand it, in Papua New

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Speaker 2: Guinea's capital of Port Moresby, in an effort to help

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Speaker 2: those local health authorities to deal with what's been described

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Speaker 2: as a spiraling coronavirus crisis.

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Speaker 3: There.

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Speaker 2: Now to talk more about this is lennataris the head

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Speaker 2: of the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Center, which

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Speaker 2: is of course responsible for OZMAT. Good morning to you, Len.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Katie. And they are wonderful people, the best

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Speaker 2: Absolutely they are mate. What is the current situation in

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Speaker 2: Papua New Guinea And how's that team going?

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Speaker 3: Look, the team set down up there. The boots were

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Speaker 3: They're providing support for through the head of Mission up

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Speaker 3: working very closely. We're part of Federal Health, working closely

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Speaker 3: the interesting part of this OKAT is that we're up

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Speaker 3: there August September of last year doing helping them to

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Speaker 3: consider and indeed the PNG government and Health Australian Deeper

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Speaker 2: Lenn how many how many Aussies have headed across and

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Speaker 2: have we got territories as part of that team.

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Speaker 3: At this stage it's three and they're pretty all well,

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Speaker 3: all off our ozmat Queensland database. Mark Little, who is

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Speaker 3: The three of them are all from Queensland. Now quite

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Speaker 3: possibly well quite possibly very likely as we send larger

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Speaker 3: We've got all that on standby at the request of

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Speaker 2: And then my understanding is that you know, the situation

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Speaker 3: That's absolutely right, O, Katie, and those your listeners will

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Speaker 2: Or support start well, which is so incredibly important. Lenn

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Speaker 2: I had seen it reported that you know, in some

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Speaker 3: You're quite right. We saw something not dissimilar to this

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Speaker 2: Len any idea at this point in time, how long

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Lenn, I hope you don't mind a bit of

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Speaker 3: I look very very well. There's a high degree of

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So then at this point, no sort of clear

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Speaker 3: No, Look, the transition as always from my own perspective,

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Speaker 2: Absolutely well. Lenda Taris, of course, the National Critical Care

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Speaker 3: And thank you the listeners for your support.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thanks Lenn and that number this morning. If

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