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Speaker 1: Joining us live on the line right now is Joe Hersey,

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Speaker 1: the current Member for Catherine, the COLP member for Catherine.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Joe.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Katie, and good morning to the listeners. All right,

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Speaker 3: Johns and Catherine this morning?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Is that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Nice weather by the look of it.

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Speaker 3: Lovely.

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Speaker 2: Now we've got seven minutes. Joe, are you ready?

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Speaker 3: I'm ready.

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Speaker 2: Let's do it.

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Speaker 1: Joe, why did you decide to put your hand up

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Speaker 1: to run again?

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Speaker 3: So, Katie, the last four years I have been the candidate.

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Speaker 3: I have been the Member for Catherine and in opposition,

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Speaker 3: and my role has been basically like the conjurit between

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Speaker 3: the constituents and the government. There have been a lot

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Speaker 3: of concerns that we have, you know that I've listened

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Speaker 3: to in the community. I'm a very strong voice. I'm

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Speaker 3: a very fierce advocate for the community, and I want

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Speaker 3: to see this community be better. I want to see

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Speaker 3: this community be part of a better territory. And I

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Speaker 3: think as a very strong candidate and a good listener,

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Speaker 3: with my thirty five years of hairdressing behind me before

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Speaker 3: I came into this role four years ago, i think

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Speaker 3: I'm the best person for the job. And I'm certainly

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Speaker 3: not backward in coming forward, and no one's going to

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Speaker 3: die wondering what I think of And I think people

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Speaker 3: find that a little bit refreshing and they want someone

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Speaker 3: who's going to be a fierce strong advocate for them

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Speaker 3: to be able to get the issues. And you know,

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Speaker 3: as you said, we do have some issues here in

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Speaker 3: Catherine at the moment, but underneath that we have an

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Speaker 3: amazing community and I think we just have to remember

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Speaker 3: that at the end of the day as well. We

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Speaker 3: do have some social issues, but underneath that our community

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Speaker 3: is amazing and when the chips are down, we all

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Speaker 3: pull together and that's very important for a community.

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Speaker 1: Joe, what do you see as being the biggest issues

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Speaker 1: in the electrodes?

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Speaker 3: The biggest issues that I hear on the doors and

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Speaker 3: when I'm out in the street is crime and anti

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Speaker 3: social behavior. And I can tell you, Katie, the last

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Speaker 3: couple of weeks have been extremely tough for the community.

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Speaker 3: We have had people getting assaulted in their houses. There

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Speaker 3: is not one business in the main street that has

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Speaker 3: not been broken into. It is heartbreaking when I go

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Speaker 3: and talk to the likes of Miranda Outstation Interiors, who's

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Speaker 3: just had a one year anniversary of being in a

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Speaker 3: business and then goes in and has graffiti on her walls.

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Speaker 3: Break in. This is just a daily occurrence. People are

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Speaker 3: set up with it and they have had an absolute

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Speaker 3: gutfull and you know, moving forward, should we get the

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Speaker 3: you know, the privilege of taking on government, you know,

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Speaker 3: we will make sure that police have stronger powers. We

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Speaker 3: will make sure that people are held accountable. And I

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Speaker 3: think that's one thing that I hear in the community

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Speaker 3: that no one is accountable and there are no consequences,

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Speaker 3: and that is something that you know under a CELP

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Speaker 3: government will change. Jo.

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Speaker 1: We have had a message come through from Beckett Willow Blue.

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Speaker 1: She's really asking of the other candidate, you know what

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Speaker 1: their plans are, but have you been down to meet

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Speaker 1: with all of those different businesses along the main street.

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Speaker 2: Is that something that you do regularly?

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Speaker 3: That is something I do extremely regularly, probably once a month.

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Speaker 3: But given that we're a very small community, I do

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Speaker 3: call into or I'll see them out and about in

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Speaker 3: the community. And I've spoken to beck at Willow Blue

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Speaker 3: many times. You know, we now have businesses at the moment,

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Speaker 3: Katie that they're just so they are struggling so much

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Speaker 3: that they're not fixing their broken windows, and it's kind

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Speaker 3: of I understand why they're not, but then it brings

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Speaker 3: the look of the community down. We've Nicki at the

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Speaker 3: coffee club got broken into just a couple of days ago,

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Speaker 3: so she's sort of boarded up. Beck's boarded up, Fees

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Speaker 3: boarded up, Miranda's got broken windows. Right next to me

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Speaker 3: in my office here there's a window boarded up. You know,

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Speaker 3: this is not a good look for our community. And

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Speaker 3: these people need to be held to account when when

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Speaker 3: one seems to be held to account for these and

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Speaker 3: that's something under a CLP government that you know, we

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Speaker 3: will be holding these people to account. So okay to

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Speaker 2: And so we're at about three minutes thirty five.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you, taking those issues into account,

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Speaker 1: why do you feel that you're the best place to

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Speaker 1: try and combat them.

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Speaker 3: Because under a CLP government, we will make sure that

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Speaker 3: parents are responsible for their children, work with them in

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Speaker 3: a school environent to make sure their kids are going

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Speaker 3: to get back into the school, bring back truancy officers,

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Speaker 3: make as I said, give police more powers, make sure

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Speaker 3: that those people that are doing the wrong thing are

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Speaker 3: power to be able to go and you know, make

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Speaker 3: I think as part of a very strong CLP team,

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Speaker 3: you know, we are grassroots where business people we know

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Speaker 3: how to run. You know, our businesses that we've come

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Speaker 3: from before. We talk to people out there on the

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Speaker 3: on the ground every single day, listen to them and

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Speaker 3: you know, take their concerns to the government that we

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Speaker 3: have so far, but moving in moving forward with a

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Speaker 3: CLP government, you know, it's about making the hard decisions.

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Speaker 3: And you know, for thirty four years that I've lived

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Speaker 3: here in Catherine, Katie, I've never seen our community so

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Speaker 3: broken as it is at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Jo I want to ask you about the Pool. I

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Speaker 1: know you and I have spoken about this before. It's

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Speaker 1: something that people have raised with me in terms of

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Speaker 1: that Catherine Pool, is the COLP going to look towards

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Speaker 1: further investment.

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Speaker 3: I think that's something Katie that needs to be discussed

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Speaker 3: in the future. I know that three years ago there

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Speaker 3: was a ten million dollar announcement for the pool from

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Speaker 3: both sides. That money has come true. Three hundred thousand

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Speaker 3: got given from the government, and I know that potentially

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Speaker 3: that is not going to be enough to do the

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Speaker 3: plans that they have for the pool read development, and

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Speaker 3: I think moving forward, that's something I've actually got a

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Speaker 3: meeting with counsel tomorrow and that's something that needs to

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Speaker 3: be discussed moving forward. And you know, we know that

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Speaker 3: we're eleven billion dollars in debt, but you know, could

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Speaker 3: That's something that as a team, we'll have to talk about.

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Speaker 3: But I'm a fierce advocate for that pool facility. We're

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Speaker 3: right on the Stuart Highway and it could be an

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Speaker 3: amazing facility. And I've said that from the get go

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Speaker 3: of that project.

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Speaker 1: JO a very quick one. Binjari Aboriginal Community Corporation. They

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Speaker 1: joined us on.

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Speaker 2: The show a little earlier.

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Speaker 1: They said they're at risk of falling over due to

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Speaker 1: unpaid invoices and continual delays courts by Dipple, bureaucracy and inefficiencies.

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Speaker 1: What could you do as a local member to try

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Speaker 1: and support that community?

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Speaker 3: I every three months, Katie, I'm out at Binjari. We

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Speaker 3: do community barbecues. I'm very well aware of the situation

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Speaker 3: that's going on out there at the moment. I think

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Speaker 3: it's about having those conversations with people sitting down around

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Speaker 3: the table working out how this can be worked through

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Speaker 3: for Binjari to have those invoices paid. As deb had

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Speaker 3: said previously, there was an arrangement in play for them

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Speaker 3: to pay that contractor off. And obviously something's fallen down

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Speaker 3: in their conversations, and I think that's something that, you know,

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Speaker 3: maybe everyone needs to go and have a very a

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Speaker 3: good sit down talk about it, discuss what the concerns

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Speaker 3: are and work through them. And I think you can

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Speaker 3: only do that by having a good conversation.

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Speaker 1: Jo, We've run out of time in terms of the

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Speaker 1: seven minutes, but I will give you an extra thirty

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Speaker 1: seconds and I'll do the same for our next candidate

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 2: Nick. Why should people vote for you?

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Speaker 3: Why should people vote for me? Katie? I am a

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Speaker 3: very strong advocate for Catherine, And just coming up, if

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Speaker 3: I can just talk about this weekend with the show

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Speaker 3: weekend I would like to see and our community would

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Speaker 3: love to see the fact that resources are going to

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Speaker 3: come in here to Catherine, we don't want to be

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Speaker 3: down like in Alice Springs, where you know, there was

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Speaker 3: a curfew after the fact of the show. We've got

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Speaker 3: our show coming up this weekend. It's about talking to

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Speaker 3: the police, making sure government understand that our community really

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Speaker 3: needs resources in here so that everyone feels safe in

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Speaker 3: the community over this weekend and continuing those good conversations

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Speaker 3: and making sure that you know people in the community

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Speaker 3: are safe.

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Speaker 1: Joe, it is always good to talk to you. We

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Speaker 1: have run out of time. Thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: joining us this morning on our Meet.

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Speaker 2: The Candidate series. Thanks Katie, thank you