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Speaker 1: Jump mission with Jones and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Sydney was smashed yesterday with over one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: mills of rain falling within ours. The flooding is now

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Speaker 2: so widespread it's hard to keep track. Our Premier Dominic Perrete,

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Speaker 2: was on the ground in Sydney inspecting a lot of

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Speaker 2: this yesterday. He's on his way to Lismore as we speak,

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Speaker 2: but he joins us now, good morning, Premier, Morning Amanda.

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Speaker 3: How are you going?

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Speaker 2: Not too bad? What kind of stuff did you see yesterday?

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Speaker 3: I was obviously flash flooding right across Sydney. We've got

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Speaker 3: a number of evacuation orders out and evacuation warnings. I

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Speaker 3: don't think we've ever seen rain like this in Sydney

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Speaker 3: for some time, and we just continue to ask people

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Speaker 3: right across our state when those orders are in place,

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Speaker 3: that you please follow the instructions from the sees, because

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Speaker 3: what we do find is many people continue, you know,

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Speaker 3: don't leave when those orders are in place, and that

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Speaker 3: puts them and their families in danger. And people should

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Speaker 3: also remember when we're going through this difficult period, that

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Speaker 3: we don't drive through flood orders because those instructions are

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Speaker 3: there obviously for people's protection, but it's obviously a difficult

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Speaker 3: time right across our state dom.

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Speaker 1: You're heading to Lismore and there's a hostile reception waiting

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Speaker 1: for you up there. A lot of people are saying

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Speaker 1: the government and the Prime Minister have dragged the SAT

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Speaker 1: on the hands during this event.

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Speaker 3: Well, JONESI, I've been up here for a number of

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Speaker 3: days over the course of last week and into this week,

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Speaker 3: and there's no doubt that there's a sense on the

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Speaker 3: ground in particularly in the outlying communities, a sense of

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Speaker 3: isolation and abandonment. It's obviously a very difficult time, but

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Speaker 3: we've been here and I've certainly been able to see

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Speaker 3: first time. Unless you actually come up and see the

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Speaker 3: destruction and the devastation that has occurred up here, you

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Speaker 3: really can't appreciate it. And whether it's home after home

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Speaker 3: that has been destroyed, businesses are the debris on the streets.

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Speaker 3: My focus right now is to get the clean up

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Speaker 3: occurring as quickly as possible, and that's well underway. To

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Speaker 3: get people into homes, and I think we've got to

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Speaker 3: have a thousand people right now in temporary emergency accommodation,

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Speaker 3: but we're looking at short to long term housing that

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Speaker 3: we're going to need to provide here, and in addition

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Speaker 3: to that as well, they fixing the bridges and getting

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Speaker 3: the financial support out there, but working very closely with

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Speaker 3: local communities. Where appointed yesterday that the Deputy Police Commissioner

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Speaker 3: maur Lanion to coordinate our effort up here in the

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Speaker 3: Northern Rivers. But as well, you know, the task ahead

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Speaker 3: is going to be tough, but we'll get it done.

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Speaker 3: But what's also left a significant impression on me has

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Speaker 3: been the courage and the bravery and the sense of

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Speaker 3: community spirit in these communities. You'll never see anything like it,

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Speaker 3: and I think it just shows, you know, in times

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Speaker 3: of adversity and devastation, people coming together to look after

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Speaker 3: each other.

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Speaker 1: And I just asked this dominic, how can we stop

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Speaker 1: this happening again? Because it's not like it's unprecedented, because

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Speaker 1: it happened pretty much this time last year. And I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about releasing water from dams and all those sort

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Speaker 1: of things. And what are we learning from this?

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Speaker 3: We're learning is we just can't keep doing the same

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Speaker 3: thing over and over again. And I think we kind

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Speaker 3: of treat whether it's a bushfire or a flood we

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Speaker 3: look at these disasters in isolation. I mean here in

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Speaker 3: Lismore for example, I mean this was an unpresent event. Mean,

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Speaker 3: this is a fourteen and a half meter flood. We've

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Speaker 3: never seen anything like it, and it is completely devastating.

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Speaker 3: But it was only in twenty seventeen when in Lismore

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Speaker 3: we had a flood of over ten meters and that

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Speaker 3: also caused massive devastation to many people. And you know,

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Speaker 3: it's been a really difficult time for our status, you know,

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Speaker 3: when we've gone through bushfires, flood floods again, the pandemic

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Speaker 3: that's all off the back of drought. But our people

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Speaker 3: are resilient. Jonesy, You're right, we've got to look at

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Speaker 3: better ways of doing things moving forward. We can't just rebuild.

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Speaker 3: We've got to rebuild in a way that protects people

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Speaker 3: and towns as we go forward.

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Speaker 2: One of the we asked our listeners if they had

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Speaker 2: any questions to put to you. In a couple of them,

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Speaker 2: I'll actually quite a few of them are about the

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Speaker 2: deployment of the defense forces and why it seemed to

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Speaker 2: take so long for them, As you say, the big

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Speaker 2: cleanup it's going to take ages. Why we couldn't have

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Speaker 2: got the defense forces involved earlier.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I'm very appreciative is premier that the

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Speaker 3: ADF are coming in and those numbers are building up now.

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Speaker 3: One of it. There's a logistical challenge for many for

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Speaker 3: getting the ADF in because many of our communities you

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Speaker 3: were in isolation just last because they were cut off

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Speaker 3: by floodwaters and it was we had to rent a

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Speaker 3: weather and in terms of food drops and evacuations and

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Speaker 3: save people's lives, and they're doing those flood rescues we

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Speaker 3: couldn't get we couldn't get aircraft into the skies. So

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Speaker 3: there are things that we can definitely learn going forward.

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Speaker 3: And once we're through the immediate focus of getting the

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Speaker 3: cleanup completed and getting people into homes, we will look

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Speaker 3: at that about ways in which one these disasters occur,

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Speaker 3: how we can respond better in the immediate But from

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Speaker 3: my perspective, seeing now ADF truck after ADF truck come

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Speaker 3: that we'll be able to have all around a thousand

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Speaker 3: troops right across the northern rivers being able to assist

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Speaker 3: with the cleanup, be able to assist with infrastructure and support,

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Speaker 3: because that's exactly what we're going to need to get

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Speaker 3: all hands. It's all hands on deck up here. But

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Speaker 3: the idea no, I mean, as I said, now is

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Speaker 3: not the time for review in terms of how we

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Speaker 3: can do things better. The job at hand right our

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Speaker 3: is to get everybody together to coordinate and arrange, to

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Speaker 3: clean up to occur, to get people in homes, to

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Speaker 3: give mental health support for those who need it, to

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Speaker 3: get bridges fixed, to get the roads back on track.

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Speaker 3: And if we can do that then I think we'll

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Speaker 3: get to the point in time we go well, you know,

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Speaker 3: let's let's let's have a frank and honest assessment about

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Speaker 3: how things could have been done better at the outset.

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Speaker 1: Excellent And of course you can go to the Service

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Speaker 1: Australia dot gov dot a U site for that one

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Speaker 1: off payment all that stuff that's their PREMI Dominic Perrote.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining.

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Speaker 3: Us, Thanks James, thanks Amanda, Thanks Premier.

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Speaker 1: And also there's a phone number there as well, one

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Speaker 1: eight zero, double two, double six.

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