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Speaker 1: Job mission with Jones and Amanda Well. Eighty nine cases

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Speaker 1: yesterday in New South Wales. Where will this all end?

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt that the outbreak and lockdown have been

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Speaker 1: good financial news.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 3: The Prime Minister of Australia joins us right now. Hello Scomail,

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Speaker 3: How are you hey?

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Speaker 2: Jamie Amen?

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Speaker 3: Well, I feel bad saying Sco. These are serious time, mate,

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Speaker 3: but and I don't want to. We don't have time

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Speaker 3: went wrong with quarantine or the vaccine roll out. You know,

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Speaker 3: there's plenty of people having a crack at you about that,

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Speaker 3: but I'm a sort of a forward thinking sort of person.

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Speaker 3: Where do we go from here?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that's exactly the right approach too. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we just got to deal with what's in front of us,

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Speaker 2: and right now people need additional support because we're about

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Speaker 2: perhaps longer. That's for the Premier to let people know.

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Speaker 2: And that's why yesterday, you know, mid last week, the

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Speaker 2: two things. The first one was we're already providing payments

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Speaker 2: We were already making payments of five hundred dollars if

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Speaker 2: eight hours and twenty hours a week. Those payments were

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Speaker 2: or whatever. We've agreed to increase those payments to six

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Speaker 2: so those payments will go up and two things will happen.

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Speaker 2: Then you go onto the website, you ring up, you

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Speaker 2: which is a very good process. It will also be

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Speaker 2: going to keep getting that payment for as long as

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Speaker 2: the lockdown goes, unless your circumstances change. If you get

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Speaker 2: your hours back then obviously it's your obligation to tell

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Speaker 2: The other thing we were had to do was we

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Speaker 2: needed to put more support into business and cash flow support.

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Speaker 2: So we're looking after the employers have already lost hours,

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Speaker 2: the final point i'd make is what we also announced yesterday,

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Speaker 2: support for mental health. Now, I know you'll have a

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Speaker 2: pats with headspace. They're great people. They can help you

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Speaker 4: It is tough, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: I've got an NTUC student at home. I know there's

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Speaker 3: And I think what we've failed, what we've forgotten in

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Speaker 3: So with the astrosenica vaccine, for example, I went and

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Speaker 4: The stats have changedn't Well, Yeah, the risks it's got

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Speaker 2: And the advice that was given by the Technical Advisory

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Speaker 2: those supports. Headspace is the is the world's leading mental

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Speaker 2: health support for young people. It's the best in the world.

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Speaker 2: It's there to help you.

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Speaker 3: Valley could have done the gets my Goolies hotline Sky

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Speaker 3: made that would have been great.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, guys, good to talk to you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Jonesy and Amanda's famination