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Speaker 1: Follow Katie Wolfrom three sixty online at Mix one O

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Speaker 2: Yesterday the government announced three suburbs across metropolitan Metropolitan Melbourne

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Speaker 2: as COVID nineteen hotspots and revoked ten suburbs which had

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Speaker 2: been declared hotspots on the fourth of February. It does

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Speaker 2: follow on of course, from an authorized officer at a

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Speaker 2: hotel quarantine facility in Melbourne returning a positive COVID nineteen test.

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Speaker 2: Now joining me on the show to talk more about

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Speaker 2: this and plenty of other things is the Minister for

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Speaker 2: Health Natasha Files.

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Speaker 3: Good morning morning, Katie, Good morning listeners.

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Speaker 2: Now, Minister, can you just talk us through this hotspot

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Speaker 2: the latest hotspot declaration.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Katie. So we acted quickly. We always have acted

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Speaker 3: quickly to declare those hot spots when cases first emerged,

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Speaker 3: and so yesterday you saw a change based on the

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Speaker 3: advice of the Chief Health Officer where we removed those

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Speaker 3: ten suburbs that were declared last week of hotspots, but

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Speaker 3: we did place three new suburbs in the Victorian Melbourne

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Speaker 3: metropolitan area as hot spots, so Maidson, Sunshine and Taylor's Lake.

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Speaker 3: And this followed that Security of Border official in one

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Speaker 3: of their hotel quarantines testing positive tree the virus, and

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Speaker 3: that's based on the evidence from the contact tracing in Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I guess at the moment, all eyes well,

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Speaker 2: I suppose most of us have become quite aware that

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Speaker 2: if you travel now there is always that chance that

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Speaker 2: a location could be declared a hot spot and your

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Speaker 2: travel plans may be thrown up in the air. And

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Speaker 2: as a result, all eyes are certainly on the rollout

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Speaker 2: of the COVID vaccine. How is that role out going

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Speaker 2: to happen in the territory.

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Speaker 3: So, Katie, we're working really closely with the federal government

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Speaker 3: on our plans to deliver the first age of the

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Speaker 3: COVID nineteen vaccine in the coming weeks. I spoke to

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Speaker 3: the Federal Health Minister again yesterday afternoon. He's confident that

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Speaker 3: the vaccine will arrive in Australia in just a couple

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Speaker 3: of weeks time, in that last week of February, and

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Speaker 3: then it will come through to the Northern Territory. The

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Speaker 3: first cohort of territories that will be vaccinated will be

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Speaker 3: those quarantine and border workers, those frontline health workers, along

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Speaker 3: why those territories would be on that first trench list.

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Speaker 1: And what date do you expect that to happen.

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Speaker 3: So I spoke to the Ministry yesterday. He's confident that

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Speaker 3: we will see the vaccine in Australia in that last

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Speaker 3: the territory. We're working on our plan not only for

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Speaker 3: the first trench and getting people vaccinated, but right across

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Speaker 3: the Northern Territory. We've seen the fires A vaccine approved

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Speaker 3: by the TGA in Australia. There is we're hopeful that

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Speaker 3: the Zenica vaccine will also be approved by the TGA,

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Speaker 3: but our plans are based around that approved fires A vaccine,

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Speaker 3: the doses that we will received from the commonwealths Government,

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Speaker 3: and we will provide more information to territorians in the

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Speaker 3: coming week around the rollout right across the Northern Territory,

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Speaker 3: a relatively small population but spread over a big geographical area.

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Speaker 4: As we know is it going to be compulsory, so

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Speaker 4: the vaccine won't be compiled through Katie, but territorians will

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Speaker 4: be expected I believe when they engage in different activities

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Speaker 4: to show that they're being vaccinated and will work for

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Speaker 4: the community, understand the vaccine and that it.

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Speaker 3: Has been approved by the TGA, and so that it

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's move along because we have had a few

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Speaker 2: questions around the BDR after the Liquor Commission meeting Tenant

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Speaker 1: Just firstly, have the.

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Speaker 2: Numbers for the BDR been updated yet on the website?

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Speaker 3: Katy, I understand that they have been updated, and I

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Speaker 3: again apologize to territories around that it issue between the

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Speaker 2: But so the thing is with that website though, was

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Speaker 3: So the BDR itself was working, so those point of

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Speaker 3: Help were manually checking that and yes, the data wasn't

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Speaker 1: Is that acceptable to you?

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Speaker 3: No, it's not acceptable, Katie. I think people largely accept

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Speaker 3: right to see that information and the type of information Katie.

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Speaker 3: That people might not have looked at the website and

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Speaker 3: So people do have the right to see that information.

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Speaker 3: So again I apologize now.

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Speaker 2: As I mentioned earlier, hospitality in se are really concerned

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Speaker 5: The BDR stats that got presented yesterday's show ninety nine

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Speaker 5: shouting your mates around the biers.

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Speaker 2: So Minister, if ninety nine percent of people are indeed

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Speaker 2: but Tenant Creek is still obviously having alcohol issues, is

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Speaker 3: Katie, there's two points to mate. It is different to

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Speaker 3: the Liquor Commission, as we know, was in Tenet Creek

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Speaker 2: Can I just ask around intoxication, whether you're talking about

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Speaker 3: So, Katie, if somebody has picked up because they are intoxicated,

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Speaker 1: Issues, all right.

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Speaker 2: We have been given some information to say that a

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Speaker 1: Happening more than once.

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Speaker 2: Are they referred to a program, some kind of rehabilitation

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Speaker 3: So we very much have those rehabilitations and those supports

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Speaker 2: Do we have any idea in terms of numbers, how

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Speaker 3: Okatie I have. I don't have those numbers in front

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Speaker 2: What I'm getting to is trying to work out when

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Speaker 2: You know, if they're then actually going through rehab in

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Speaker 3: It is complex. The BDR. It stops people that cause harm,

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Speaker 3: for example in December there was transactions declined and that

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Speaker 3: But there's no one solution that will stop this. You've

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Speaker 3: be agile and continue to respond and will continue to

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Speaker 3: look at the evidence that's before us.

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Speaker 2: I have had a question come through from one of

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Speaker 2: said that in the city, for example, there are people

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Speaker 2: who have been taken away by the police and they

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Speaker 2: understand they're on the BDR, but then they are brought

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Speaker 2: nowhere else to go. I mean, is that really a

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Speaker 3: So kay, we know that homelessness, and we also know

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Speaker 2: Well, And that's the thing, I guess, you know, the

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Speaker 1: So they can do it all over again.

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Speaker 3: Katie, it's a tricky question. We want to make those

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Speaker 3: it's difficult. And we know with treatment for alcohol addiction

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Speaker 2: All right, Minister, when are we going to find out

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Speaker 2: if indeed the BDA is going to be rolled out

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Speaker 3: So the question around Tennant Creek would be for the

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Speaker 3: that's been proposed and we certainly saw the evidence from

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Speaker 2: But is there anything stopping you know, is there anything

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Speaker 3: So the Commission were in Chanet Creek, they heard from

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Speaker 3: He certainly worked hard with licensees so they can uphold

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Speaker 2: So there's nothing realistically, there's nothing stopping the Independent Liqued

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Speaker 3: So the Tenet Creek situation was those, as I pointed

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Speaker 3: But as I said, it is not the government's policy

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Speaker 1: But it is for Tenant Creek potentially.

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Speaker 3: It has been a suggestion from the Leaky Commission and

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Speaker 2: All right, Minister, I do just want to ask you

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Speaker 2: at last year's festival. Minister, this is a pretty bad

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Speaker 3: So, Katie, the event last year, I understand around COVID

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Speaker 3: I'll continue to work with Northern Churchy Major Events on

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Speaker 3: That would be great. That puts Mary's spectacular event of

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Speaker 3: It's simply spectacular and the main feature is always out

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Speaker 2: So, Minister, is the are the live events in the

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Speaker 2: due to safety concerns with crime?

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Speaker 3: So, Katie, I'm going to have to get some clarification

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Speaker 3: for you on anty major event around what their intentions were.

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Speaker 3: They last year had hoped to roll out the event

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Speaker 3: They did at the last minute shift out to the

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Speaker 2: I mean, if this has been scrapped from them all

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Speaker 2: due to safety concerns around crime, you must be pretty

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Speaker 2: worried about that.

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Speaker 1: As a tourism minister, Katie, we know that.

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Speaker 3: The issue of crime and anti social behavior in Alice

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Speaker 3: Springs is a very real issue. There's no denying that,

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Speaker 3: the minister that lives in Ala Springs is taking in

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Speaker 3: that leadership and we certainly are not denying that crime

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Speaker 1: All Right, I'm going to leave it there.

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Speaker 2: We won't talk crime again with your minister because we

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Speaker 2: moment though with Robin Lamley. I really appreciate your time

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Speaker 2: this morning. Thank you for having a chat with us.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: That is the Minister for health Fare and also the

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Speaker 2: Minister for Tourism, Natasha Files. Now, as I just said,

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Speaker 2: it has just been well, someone has just sent this

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Speaker 2: will be no live pardumer events for the mall. The

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Speaker 2: organizers have scrapped all of those live performance events in

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Speaker 2: safety concerns is what's being reported. It goes on to

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Speaker 2: reported here that Anti Major Events Director of Engagement and

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Speaker 2: part of the event in the future.