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Speaker 1: Now I think we've got Robert on the line right now.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Robert, Good morning. How are you good, mate?

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Speaker 1: What's on your mind today, Kattie?

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Speaker 2: You know, I've just been at my daughter's house, packing

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Speaker 2: because I'm a tourism operator, and I'm really really disappointed

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Speaker 2: lot of the stuff. I know that some of it's

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Speaker 2: out of her hands, but I'm tired of hearing about

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Speaker 2: frontline workers and all the work they've done. There's a

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Speaker 2: the wall, and they all get paid, and they all

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Speaker 2: get paid double time. They're all government workers. And the

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Speaker 2: people that aren't getting paid, well, I don't know, Robert,

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Speaker 2: than just rotten hell or something.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, mate, I don't know if you heard yesterday. We

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Speaker 3: or what it was yesterday, and I certainly noted what

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Speaker 3: you know, I certainly acknowledge that our frontline workers, those

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Speaker 1: But I did point this.

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Speaker 3: Out yesterday, as you are just telling me right now, Robert,

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Speaker 3: We've got private enterprise and people that work in the

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Speaker 3: at the moment, and three days of lockdown is not

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Speaker 3: only detrimental in some situations, it's you know, it's a

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Speaker 2: Look, you know, I'm probably lucky. You've been around in

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Speaker 2: But I'm watching my daughter use our only superannuation she

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Speaker 2: really every one of those public servants will be claiming

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Speaker 2: but I'm actually asking them for him to have a

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Speaker 2: think about what their ramifications are that are really just

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Speaker 2: wash off one hundred thousand dollars worth of bookings. I

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Speaker 2: then I've got the federal government hit me for bath

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Speaker 2: And who do I pay my staff super or do

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Speaker 2: I tell the federal government to go and buy that bum? Oh?

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Speaker 3: That is bloody heartbreaking. Robert, Are you you don't? I

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Speaker 3: mean it's up to you, you know, whether you identify

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Speaker 3: But is you know I you in the tourism sector?

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Speaker 2: All absolutely right? Ups to my neck in it.

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Speaker 3: Mate, what about your daughter, you're twenty two year old.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she works with me. So every time we close

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Speaker 2: And of course what's happening is those people when she

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Speaker 2: that brings in all this money, which is importing then

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Speaker 2: This is new money going around and around, and that's

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Speaker 2: all about votes. And I'm afraid this man and this

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Speaker 3: Robert, iye, bloody, really, you know, honestly, what you're saying

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Speaker 1: And you know you are not.

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Speaker 3: The first business person who has had a discussion like

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Speaker 1: I said it earlier this morning on air.

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Speaker 3: You know, I had a prominent business woman get in

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Speaker 1: It is absolutely breaking.

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Speaker 3: And I'm hearing that from your voice this morning, and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think that it's time we stopped

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Speaker 2: all happens. I'm actually right in the line at the moment, Katie,

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Speaker 2: get my Fizer shot. All right. I'm actually standing there

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Speaker 2: to think about it. We've had that many shots in

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Speaker 2: our youth. We've had everything, triple engine, we've had totally

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Speaker 2: get the blusters shot, get on with our lives and

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Speaker 2: let's make it so that we can start doing what

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Speaker 3: Robert, Mate, thank you so much for calling this morning.

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Speaker 3: I think it is so incredibly important for everybody listening

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Speaker 3: that you've called, but also thank you for pointing out,

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Speaker 3: as well, your daughter who's twenty two. We forget sometimes

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Speaker 3: that you know that people like your daughter are you know,

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Speaker 3: are out of work then for three days. That may

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Speaker 3: you know, to our politicians, but it is. It's backbreaking

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right. So you look at it, Katie ten

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Speaker 2: the back rent. I just think that it's really time

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Speaker 2: There's a whole lot of people out there. There's a

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Speaker 2: to be in touch. Very lucky the government has supported me.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying they haven't. They've supported me through a

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Speaker 2: I don't have all the at least rents you want,

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Speaker 2: So let's have a think about this a little bit

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Speaker 2: more widely. You put it out yesterday. Why did this

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Speaker 2: two weeks and then three days later gets done a positive?

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Speaker 2: Why isn't this the part and pass of why I'm

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Speaker 2: under this de strain? Why isn't it three weeks mandatory?

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm afraid that when you stop a whole

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Speaker 2: hundredth day in Melbourne off lockdown. The psychological problems down there,

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Speaker 2: people are committing more suicide now than they ever had

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Speaker 2: because what's happened is that they've forgotten they can't pay

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Robert mate, I look, I know it's not much,

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Speaker 3: but I would like to give you our territory and

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Speaker 3: not why you've called. You know, you've called to make

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Speaker 1: But regardless, I want.

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Speaker 3: To give you that care package from perp Find Foods

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Speaker 3: put together by Neville there and and you know, like

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Speaker 3: I said, I know it's not going to change your

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Speaker 3: let others know exactly what's going on, and we appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Katie. All the listeners out there,

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Speaker 2: they're struggling, keep heart. Let's hope that things start again

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Speaker 2: and let's get on them with it.

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Speaker 3: Robert, please stay on the line so we can get

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Speaker 3: your details so that we can make sure that you

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Speaker 3: get that beautiful care package from Neville at Perhap Find Foods.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, mate. I really appreciate your calling this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie.

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Speaker 3: You have a great day you too, good weekend, Yeah

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Speaker 3: you too, mate, Thank you, and lots of love to

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Speaker 3: your daughter as well. Oh yeah, thank you big look

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Speaker 3: a big thanks to Robert for calling through and letting

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