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Speaker 2: Matt Hepworth filling in for Katie Wolf this morning. Will

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Speaker 2: Federal Parliament resumes today and live on the line from

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Speaker 2: Canberra is Northern Territory CELP. Senator Sam mcmahton, Good morning.

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Speaker 3: Senator, Good morning Maddie.

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Speaker 4: How are you good?

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Speaker 3: Thanks Sam?

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Speaker 2: Before we get into business, tell you what bit fresh

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Speaker 2: in canber there. I think I read it was minus

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Speaker 2: three overnight.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, certainly feel it, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: Oh how do you go as a territory goal hitting

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Speaker 2: those temperatures?

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Speaker 4: Well, I really only hit them when I sort of

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Speaker 4: go from the accommodation to the car. Really, because I'm

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Speaker 4: sort of from during center estimates. From seven am through

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Speaker 4: to midnight, I'm cooped up in Parliament House.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been nice and toasting in there. I'd imagine

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Speaker 2: in more ways than one you'd said it not me.

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Speaker 2: As we mentioned though, Parliament resumes again to day. It

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Speaker 2: sounds like there's some federal government tax changes to seniors

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Speaker 2: and territorians.

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Speaker 3: With another job. Can you tell us more about it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, the proposed changes for seniors was something that

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Speaker 4: I put to the Prime Minister and also to Minister

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Speaker 4: Ste Robert when he was up, and that would involve

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Speaker 4: allowing pensioners to work additional hours without it affecting their pensions.

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Speaker 4: This will be a temporary measure due to the worker shortages,

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Speaker 4: particularly in agricultural, tourism and hospitality industries, and would allow

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Speaker 4: those pensioners who wanted to do some extra work, particularly

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Speaker 4: some of our gray nomads who are traveling around the territory,

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Speaker 4: to be able to do extra hours without it affecting

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Speaker 4: their pension, which they can work very few hours at

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Speaker 4: the moment. So that's a proposal that I put to them.

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Speaker 4: There was quite a bit of interest shown in that,

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Speaker 4: and I'm actually meeting with the trend We've had a

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Speaker 4: few casual chats about it, but I'm meeting with him

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Speaker 4: while I'm down here to propose that further.

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Speaker 2: It's something that really hasn't been spoken about a lot,

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Speaker 2: trying to fill this job shortage that we hear so

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Speaker 2: much about in the Northern Territory at the moment, particularly

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Speaker 2: the tourism and hospitality industry. I mean, there's all this

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Speaker 2: talk that normally it would be backpackers or people from

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Speaker 2: overseas that would fill this market, and everyone's kind of

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Speaker 2: scrambling now to find a solution. But gray nomads is

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Speaker 2: something that really probably hasn't been brought into the conversation much.

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Speaker 4: No, not really. I mean, look, I managed to get

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Speaker 4: the cap on international students working hours raised, so that

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Speaker 4: was sort of the first thing to do to help

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Speaker 4: out with these worker shortages in these industries, and this

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Speaker 4: is my next proposal from that. Probably a slightly more

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Speaker 4: complex to get through, but I mean it seems to

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Speaker 4: me and to everyone that I've proposed it to to

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Speaker 4: be a no brainer. If the gray nomads are around,

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Speaker 4: if they want to do some extra hours, we should

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Speaker 4: be letting them. It's a win for everybody.

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Speaker 3: What's the feedback being like from seniors.

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Speaker 2: Have you engaged with the Kota, the counsel of the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, not formally. I've had a lot of informal

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Speaker 4: chats and I haven't had any negativity from the people

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Speaker 4: I've spoken to. Obviously, it's voluntary. We're not, like, you know,

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Speaker 4: putting them into played labor or anything. But you know

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Speaker 4: a lot of them do want to do a few

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Speaker 4: I can't see any negatives, and nor can any of

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Speaker 4: the people that I've proposed it to or spoken to

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Speaker 2: How quickly could we see these changes made? It sounds

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Speaker 2: like the barrier at the moment is around that threshold

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Speaker 2: of the fact that it would cut into their pension.

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Speaker 2: If the government's willing and the Treasurer and the Prime

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Speaker 4: I believe it could change very quickly, you know, within

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Speaker 4: a manner of a week or two. That'll be part

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Speaker 4: of my discussion with the Treasurer as to what actually

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Speaker 4: needs to happen from his point of view. But yeah,

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Speaker 4: it could happen very quickly. And as it did with

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Speaker 4: on the hours that they could work, so this could

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Speaker 4: happen very quickly. Now, the proposal to change the taxation

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Speaker 4: on people who are working a second job is going

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Speaker 4: to be a lot more complex because that's going to

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Speaker 4: involve changes to the Taxation Act, so that would take

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Speaker 4: a lot longer and be a lot more complex. I'll

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Speaker 4: also mention that to the Treasurer, But I don't see

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I guess the problem would be, is we

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Speaker 2: need something pretty quick in immediate.

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Speaker 3: Look at our tourism season up here.

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Speaker 2: We're already in the peak of it at the moment,

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Speaker 2: and I guess if it's something that's going to take

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Speaker 2: it's as something that's probably going to be a solution

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Speaker 2: for next year's job shortages or beyond.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Correct, we need something quickly. You know, we need

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Speaker 4: it for our egg industries, we need it for our

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Speaker 4: tourism and hospitality industries. And you know, as you say,

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Speaker 4: we're already well into our tourism season and operators are

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Speaker 4: just getting absolutely smashed, which is great, it's a good

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Speaker 4: problem to have, but they don't have the staff to

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Speaker 4: adequately service the demand.

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Speaker 2: I do believe there's some federal government initiatives at the moment.

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Speaker 2: They're encouraging people to move to the Northern Territory to

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Speaker 2: fill some of these job vacancies can do you know

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Speaker 2: anything more about that at all?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, mate, Look that's a pretty it's a pretty good,

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Speaker 4: pretty generous initiative. The federal government is providing up to

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Speaker 4: nine thousand dollars to people to relocate to the Northern

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Speaker 4: Territory to take up an ongoing job. So if you're

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Speaker 4: a job seeker, if you know, anyone's sitting in Brisbane, Sydney,

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Speaker 4: to the Northern Territory. It's pretty generous incentive.

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Speaker 2: And is that just the Northern Territory or is it

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's other parts of regional Australia. And it also

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Speaker 4: is a three thousand dollars incentive if you move to

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Speaker 4: another capital city, but up to nine thousand if you

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Speaker 4: move to a regional area. So you know, as that's

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Speaker 4: going to encompass most of the Northern Territory, it's a

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Speaker 4: pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Offer, certainly is Senator. If I can just change pace

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Speaker 2: a little bit. Over the weekend we heard reports that

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Speaker 2: Opposition leader Leah Finocchiario's chief of staff, Tim Dixon, has

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Speaker 2: nominated for Senate pre selection. Others include Alice Spring's deputy

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Speaker 2: manager Center Price and Defense, and tees Linda Fasildein. Sam,

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Speaker 2: will you be seeking pre selection as well? And are

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Speaker 2: you worried about all this competition from other candidates.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Maddie. Obviously as a sitting senator, I will be

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Speaker 4: seeking pre selection to continue on in my role as

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Speaker 4: a c orp senator. And no, I'm not not worried

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Speaker 4: at all. This is the beauty of a liberal democracy

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Speaker 4: that we live in, is that, you know, anyone can

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Speaker 4: put their hand up and seek pre selection. And the

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Speaker 4: thing that we need to keep in mind too, is

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Speaker 4: that there are two Senate spots, So I'd be worried

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Speaker 4: if no one else had stuck their hand up. So

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Speaker 4: I'm very glad that people willing to put themselves forward,

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Speaker 4: and certainly of all those three people that have been

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Speaker 4: have any one of them as number two on my

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Speaker 2: Is it a point of contention within the party at

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Speaker 2: the moment, No, not at.

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Speaker 4: All that I've heard, not at all. You know, we're

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Speaker 4: glad that we're getting quality people putting their hands up

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Speaker 4: for election. You know, we're going to have an election

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Speaker 4: coming up, possibly later this year or early next year,

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Speaker 4: and it's really heartening to the party and for the

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Speaker 4: Party that we're having quality candidates willing to put the

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Speaker 4: hand up and take on a job.

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Speaker 2: What's the word on the ground in Canberra about an

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Speaker 2: election date.

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Speaker 4: At the moment, The word is it's going to be

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Speaker 4: early next year. But obviously that's the decision for the PM,

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Speaker 4: and he will make that decision known to us when

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Speaker 4: he's ready, but he's certainly saying early next year. Talk

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Speaker 4: is probably mark April at the moment.

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Speaker 3: Very good.

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Speaker 2: Now, I'm just finally sending to anything else we should

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Speaker 2: know about in Parliament this week.

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Speaker 4: Look, I mean, we've got a lot going on in

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Speaker 4: budget estimates. I mean, that's what I'm doing at the moment.

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Speaker 4: Obviously the Senate is very tied up in that and

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Speaker 4: there's going to be a lot discussed. I mean, it

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Speaker 4: was a good budget I think by everyone's reckoning of it,

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Speaker 4: and we'll be having a look at that in a

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Speaker 4: lot more detail, and obviously all the opposition parties get

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Speaker 4: to ask questions. We also get to question the departments.

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Speaker 4: There's certainly quite a few questions that I'll be asking

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Speaker 4: on behalf of the Northern Territory, so you think it

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Speaker 4: can be very busy two weeks.

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Speaker 2: Just finally, Senator, I forgot to ask before, when will

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Speaker 2: we hear those candidates finalized for preselection.

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Speaker 4: That's set down for the twenty sixth twenty seventh of June,

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Speaker 4: where the COLP will hold its Central Council and it's

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Speaker 4: expected that pre selection will take place there and the

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Speaker 4: candidates will be announced as soon as that has taken place.

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Speaker 2: Very good, Well, we know you are very busy in Canberra.

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Speaker 2: We will let you get back to it. Northern Territory

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Speaker 2: CLP Senator Sam McMahon, I thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: your time this morning.

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Speaker 4: No way, thanks Maddie,