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Speaker 1: You might recall earlier in the week, or you would

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Speaker 1: and well, some people very supportive of her speech, saying

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Speaker 1: that you know, she supported industry and supported what Territorians want.

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Speaker 1: Others not so calling out and saying that it's not

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Speaker 1: just heels and trolls who are concerned about Middle arm

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory Group Parents for Climate Action, they're actually going

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Speaker 1: to be sending an envoid to Canberra to deliver a

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Speaker 1: letter and a book which has been designed and signed

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Speaker 1: by hundreds of families from across the Northern Territory. They

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Speaker 1: say their message is clear, the environmental and health impacts

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Speaker 1: going to threaten their children's lives and the ability to

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Speaker 1: live safely in the Northern Territory. Now joining me on

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Speaker 1: the line right now is Cat Magnamara, one of the

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Speaker 1: parents traveling to Canberra. Good morning to.

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Speaker 2: Your Cat, Hi, Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time. Now, why are you

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Speaker 1: making this trip to Canberra.

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Speaker 2: We're going to Canberra because we are a bunch of

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Speaker 2: Territorian parents who are really concerned about the environmental and

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Speaker 2: health impacts of all the proposed new gas projects such

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Speaker 2: as backing in the Beaterloo and the gas processing at

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Speaker 2: Middle Arms. We're really concerned about how it's going to

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Speaker 2: threaten our children's livelihoods and their ability to live safely

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Speaker 2: in the anty in the future. We've been listening to,

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Speaker 2: for example, the Northern Territory of Pediatricians who've been raising

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Speaker 2: some serious health concerns about it, and we're bringing that

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Speaker 2: message to Canberra.

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Speaker 1: So kat tell me a little bit more about the

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Speaker 1: book that's been put together and what you are going

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Speaker 1: to be doing when you.

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Speaker 3: Get there, right.

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Speaker 2: So, yeah, the book, it's amazing. In just a matter

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Speaker 2: together in a book and we'll be bringing it to

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Speaker 2: Camber next week. There's going to be a big day

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Speaker 2: of action on Tuesday, they have Health and Climate Action

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Speaker 2: and we'll be meeting with several federal parlementarians to deliver

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Speaker 2: our book and chat them that our concerns and what.

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Speaker 1: Are you hoping that you'll be able to achieve really

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Speaker 2: Well, in particular, we will be asking them to redirect

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Speaker 2: the federal labor the one point five billion dollar subsidy

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Speaker 2: it does not go towards supporting fossil fuel projects like

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Speaker 2: the gas processing hub, and instead is redirected towards like

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Speaker 2: genuinely sustainable projects and decarbonization and to the other industries

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Speaker 2: that the territory really needs for our future development to have,

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Speaker 2: like a safe, healthy, ongoing future in the territory.

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Speaker 3: Kat, what did you.

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Speaker 1: Make of this speech that the Chief finished and Natasha

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Speaker 1: Fhiles delivered earlier in the week when she referred to,

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Speaker 1: you know, to teals and trolls and said that you know,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to be lectured by people that live

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Speaker 2: Look, she's trying really hard to discredit the movement here

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Speaker 2: in Darwen as us being salners or led by standers.

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Speaker 2: It's just simply not true. There's been a really strong

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Speaker 2: from the local community for over a decade now. We're

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Speaker 2: not trolls, we're not extremeists. We're territorials from all different backgrounds,

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Speaker 2: and we're listening to the experts. We're listening to scientists,

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Speaker 2: we're listening to the doctors when they say that we

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Speaker 2: absolutely cannot afford to open new fossil fuel projects. And

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Speaker 2: we are first and foremost we live here and we

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Speaker 2: know the repercussions of it. So yeah, I think that

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Speaker 2: was We know who we are, and she knows who

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Speaker 2: we are as well.

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Speaker 1: Tad tell me, you know, what do you say to

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Speaker 2: Well, this is the thing is that we do. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we do want sustainable jobs, truly sustainable, absolutely, and that

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Speaker 2: is not what is happening with gas expansion and tracking

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Speaker 2: need jobs. We work here, we send our kids to

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Speaker 2: our community. We want long term jobs. Opening up new

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Speaker 2: the North. We know where the client projections are heading.

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Speaker 2: They're heading to an unlivable future within our children's lifetimes.

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Speaker 2: It may be too hot to live in parts of

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Speaker 2: healthy community to let us live here long term.

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Speaker 1: Kat, tell me how many of you are going to

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Speaker 1: be heading down there to Canberra? I think is said

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Speaker 1: a around five hundred Is that right?

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Speaker 3: Oh no, sorry, the five hundred words who signed the sorry? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's all right. There'll be a group of parents. I

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Speaker 3: think there's about seven of us going, but we're going

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Speaker 3: as a contingent with the pediatricians and doctors and there. Overall,

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Speaker 3: the whole contingent will be around one hundred people.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'll be really interested to see how it all goes.

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Speaker 1: Do keep in contact, let us know and look, I

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Speaker 1: always think you know whether people have the same views

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Speaker 1: or differing views I think it's really important that we

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Speaker 1: be respectful of them. So I appreciate you coming on

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Speaker 1: the show this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Katie Ongley, thank you, thank you,