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Speaker 1: Good morning, minister.

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Speaker 2: How did those vouchers go last night, Katie?

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Speaker 3: They went very quickly. Our people tested the system to

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Speaker 3: have eight times the number of people that we had

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Speaker 3: for the first round, and we went over that. So

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Speaker 3: I apologize to those people that are a little frustrated,

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Speaker 3: but twelve thousand vouchers have now been issued. But encourage

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Speaker 3: people to go on the weight list. What we've done

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Speaker 3: is this round has the two hundred dollars tourism voucher,

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Speaker 3: but it also has the opportunity for if you travel

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Speaker 3: further than four hundred kilometers to get another two hundred

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Speaker 3: certainly encourage people if they haven't got their voucher to

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Speaker 3: go on the weight list, and we'll if people don't

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Speaker 3: use their voucher or they don't use that extra bonus,

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Speaker 3: we'll be able to re issue more vout.

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Speaker 2: You. Wow, so twelve thousand already gone. What time did

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Speaker 2: that all wrap up, Katie.

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Speaker 3: I don't have the specifics, but it's certainly fantastic to

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Speaker 3: see these vouchers fully subscribed. I know some people were

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Speaker 3: a bit frustrated. We've got to remember what this is

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Speaker 3: about the tourism and hospitality industry has been devastated by coronavirus.

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Speaker 3: This is a stimulus measure from the government to encourage

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Speaker 3: Territorians to get out there to holiday in their own

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Speaker 3: backyard and to support some of these operators that have

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Speaker 3: had a really difficult year. We know the first round

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Speaker 3: about Katie injected nine point six million dollars into the

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Speaker 3: tourism and hospitality sector. So certainly lots of people have

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Speaker 3: got those vouchers. Encourage you to jump on the wait

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Speaker 3: list if you have missed out.

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Speaker 1: How long were some people forced to sit in wait?

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Speaker 1: Do you have any idea, Katie.

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Speaker 3: I've heard different stories. Some people were able to get

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Speaker 3: straight through, other people you know, were able to get

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Speaker 3: this morning and we're able to grab a voucher. So

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Speaker 3: we certainly had a huge amount of interest. But I

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Speaker 3: understand there was about twenty six thousand unique visitors to

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Speaker 3: the website in the first hour, so that was ten

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Speaker 1: Minister, taking that into account.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we've spoken about how popular this scheme seems

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Speaker 2: to be and also how positive it is for our

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Speaker 2: tourism and hospitality sector. Would you consider and is the

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Speaker 2: government actually considering either extending this or putting some more

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Speaker 3: So we've got a third round, Katie, that will be

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Speaker 3: available in February. So what will happen with this round

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Speaker 3: is people will start to receive their vouchers from the

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Speaker 3: fourth of November in a staggered approach, and then they

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Speaker 3: will have fourteen days from the data issue to make

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Speaker 3: that booking and then they must undertake their travel by

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Speaker 3: the thirty first of January. And what we saw last time, Katie,

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Speaker 3: pool and people that were waitlisted were able to get vouchers,

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Speaker 3: you know, in the weeks following the initial alex of vouchers.

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Speaker 2: Okay, now can I ask about those borders opening yesterday

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Speaker 1: Do you know how many people came into the territory yesterday.

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Speaker 3: What we saw yesterday was, as you've just outlined, those

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Speaker 3: I don't have a specific on the numbers. We've still

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Speaker 3: this is a positive sign for family and friends that

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Speaker 3: Victoria that can't go elsewhere. They can certainly look to

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Speaker 3: the Northern Territory for that unique holiday experience.

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Speaker 2: Now, in terms of the QR code or you know,

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Speaker 2: people obviously having to leave their details when they go

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Speaker 2: into different establishments, that's being rolled out in the next

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Speaker 1: I understand it. How exactly is it going to.

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Speaker 3: Work, Katie. It's a really simple system for businesses that

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Speaker 3: If we were to see cases of coronavirus, we don't

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Speaker 1: Now, Minister, a question that we continue to get through

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Speaker 2: TECHT line is this, Katie, can you ask how many

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Speaker 2: respirators are available for Territorians?

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Speaker 1: Actual numbers not waffle, so Katie, in.

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Speaker 3: Terms of respirators that would be utilized in an intensive

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Speaker 3: care environment. So we have a number of intensive care

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Speaker 3: beds and I will get these figures to UKT Offare

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Speaker 3: the capacity to increase that significantly. And how that would

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Speaker 3: so they could be set up in RoHS Island Hospital

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Speaker 3: or they could go into a regional area if that

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Speaker 3: was the best clinical advice. But I'll get those specific

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Speaker 3: numbers to you, Katie, But.

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Speaker 2: Are we sort of talking you know, in the tens

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Speaker 2: or you know, I know you'll come back with those

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Speaker 3: So, Katie, I think that we can easily have around

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Speaker 3: fifty ICU bes in the territory. We can then increase

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Speaker 3: those as I've just talked through with different approaches, so

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Speaker 3: it could be utilizing existing hospital resources, or if we

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Speaker 3: a large majority of people have a very mild illness,

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Speaker 3: and we've learned more about the virus. We've also seen, Katie,

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Speaker 2: There absolutely and I think that Territorians just want to

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Speaker 3: And I think looking at Victoria when they did have

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Speaker 3: we certainly would get support from other jurisdictions and what

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Speaker 3: we have strong plans in place to care for people.

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Speaker 2: Minister, one of the areas at the moment that people

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Speaker 2: are crying out for help is Catherine. I've got a

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Speaker 2: morning Katie. Could you please ask the Minister for Health

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Speaker 2: what's being done about getting doctors for care? Can not

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Speaker 2: everyone can afford to go to Darwin or Palmerston and

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Speaker 2: tellyhealth isn't always the answer either. We need doctors in

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Speaker 3: So I met with the Federal Minister for Health Greg

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Speaker 3: that we discussed was the continuation of GP and primary

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Speaker 3: and there's a range of plans in place. But they

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Speaker 3: So absolutely, as that listener had said, tellyhealth is not

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Speaker 2: So when will those doctors and those medical services from

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Speaker 3: I'll have to come back to you with that date, Katie.

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Speaker 3: The media release that I'm reading from was put out

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Speaker 3: the PHN secured the GP services. They've secured that space

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Speaker 2: Something that was raised on the week that was by

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Speaker 3: So, Katie, all of this has been worked droughing great detail.

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Speaker 3: There's been a number of measures that have been identified.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's really not good enough though at the

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Speaker 3: Katie. This is a difficulty that small regional towns right

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Speaker 3: how can we work so that you know, the support

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Speaker 2: Do you think it's acceptable though, that people aren't actually

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Speaker 3: What I want to say to the people of Catherine

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Speaker 2: So how soon do you reckon it's going to be

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Speaker 2: like over the next week, over the next month.

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Speaker 3: My understanding it is in the coming weeks, and they're

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Speaker 3: working as efficiently as they can. Obviously, the previous service

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Speaker 3: have agreed to provide those GPS. The phn's come up

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Speaker 2: So right now, what is your advice for the residents

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Speaker 2: of Catherine if if you know, I like the example

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Speaker 1: What should she do?

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Speaker 3: So the advice is that there is the Telehealth Health

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Speaker 3: Now service and there's a telephone number Katie, and I'll

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Speaker 3: So this the primary health of GP services, as I said,

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Speaker 3: He absolutely agrees it's a priority. The PHN are working

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Speaker 1: All right, if you're able to keep us up to date.

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Speaker 3: Made all cent through that information so that you can

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Speaker 2: Now, Minister, I do want to take you to a

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Speaker 2: All right, Minister, it is something that I think will

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Speaker 2: I quick tip for the Melbourne Cup.

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Speaker 3: Oh o, Katie, I haven't thought about that yet, but

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Speaker 2: You can text us your tip a bit later. Minister Files.

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