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Speaker 1: The government say that they have now installed protection screens

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Speaker 1: network now. The upgrades follow two serious incidents on the

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Speaker 1: public bus network, which the COLP said occurred due to

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Speaker 1: prolonged neglect of the issue under the previous Labor government.

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Speaker 1: Now joining me on the line is Bill Yan, the

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Speaker 1: Minister for Logistics and Infrastructure as well as Treasurer of

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Speaker 1: the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to your minister, Good.

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Speaker 3: Morning Katie, and good morning to all your listeners.

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Speaker 1: Heren now, minister, first off, how many screens have now

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Speaker 1: been installed across our bus network.

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Speaker 3: Look, we're completed now right across the top end, and

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Speaker 3: I think it was only just late last week we

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Speaker 3: got the bus now Springs done as well, so that's

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Speaker 3: the whole lot complete. I think when we're coming to

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Speaker 3: government in August, have only been I think seventeen out

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Speaker 3: of seventy three screens done. And like this issue, you've

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Speaker 3: been around since twenty twenty three and it really been

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Speaker 3: prioritized by the previous governments. So after those issues we

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Speaker 3: had Bamel who we've seen all that vision where someone climbed,

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Speaker 3: we really got proactive on a cage. The safety of

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Speaker 3: those drivers of course absolutely paramount, but also for the

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Speaker 3: passions in the bus, but as well as the general public.

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Speaker 3: I always had these things flashing through my mind. A

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Speaker 3: bus pulling into a school bus stop, someone coming over

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Speaker 2: So exactly, it's a nightmare way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, those are the things going through my mind. When

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Speaker 3: we sort of said, right, okay, let's get really proactive

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Speaker 3: about this. Department Logistics and Infrastructure got in and helped

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Speaker 3: out CDC bus operator to get those screens done. And

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Speaker 3: then of course we also put those security guards on

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Speaker 3: the buses that didn't have screens, just to provide that

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Speaker 3: little bit about a protection for the drivers until I've

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Speaker 3: got the screens done. So I'm really really glad to

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Speaker 1: I know the Transport Workers Union, the Australia of Australia

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Speaker 1: but also the SA and T branch, they've welcomed the announcement.

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Speaker 1: I mean they say that it's something that they had

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Speaker 1: been calling for. They had a petition of over one

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Speaker 1: hundred bus drivers signed that petition really calling for the

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Speaker 1: rollout of protection screens to be expedited and for the

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Speaker 1: safer network.

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Speaker 2: Now, why do you think it like, why do you

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Speaker 1: So long under the previous government, Because it seems as

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Speaker 2: Be rolled out really rather quickly. Was it a monet

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't really know. Okay, Well, the thing is

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Speaker 3: that the cost for the modifications to the buses is

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Speaker 3: I don't think they had it in their sites and

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Speaker 3: certainly weren't focused on or were serious about it. Because

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Speaker 3: I had the TWU, I said Sam, who's the secretary

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Speaker 3: I listened to what they said. I went, yeah, right,

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Speaker 3: you guys are right, this really needs to be pushing,

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Speaker 3: needs to be expedited. So straight away we made the decision.

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Speaker 3: We pushed some government resources in to help and also

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Speaker 3: just to provide that extra layer of safety for drivers

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Speaker 3: until we get all the screens done. It wasn't it

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Speaker 3: wasn't that hard to do. It's just a matter of

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Speaker 3: making a decision, Katie, getting on with it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, do you know if there has been any incidents

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Speaker 3: Well, since the last one, which is with a bustrow

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Speaker 3: so that's good news. So obviously having those screens now

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Speaker 3: So now with all the screens finished, we don't unless

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Speaker 1: Now, Minister, I want to move along because the last

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Speaker 1: that there's only one entrance to Royal Dalen Hospital.

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Speaker 2: It is an issue that we.

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Speaker 1: Previously had raised with us by the AMA, the Australian

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so after I said that person call throw, I

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Speaker 3: hell's going on, because I suppose I look at Alice

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Speaker 3: which is good for us, but there then Ardie has

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Speaker 3: So that will give us two access points into RDH

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Speaker 1: How far away is that thobil from actually sort of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, the works on the just the upgrades in

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Speaker 3: good to see. I don't know why. Again, this is

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Speaker 3: a bit like the busting. Why didn't the previous government

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Speaker 3: a problem, what the hell are we doing about it?

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Speaker 3: And instead we've seen money through all sorts of other

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Speaker 3: So we're going to immediately dodays upgrades to the intersection,

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Speaker 2: Well, that is good news.

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Speaker 1: I know that that plenty of people are going to

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Speaker 1: I know from overnight, well, unfortunately out of Alice Springs,

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Speaker 3: Please, yeah, this is really dangerous behavior. Cat and I said,

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Speaker 3: we've made those legal changes, Yeah, Like.

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Speaker 2: What are people feeling now in our springside?

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Speaker 1: Like are they expecting that the legal changes that have

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Speaker 1: Like they must be absolutely over some of the bs

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Speaker 3: It is and it sends that horrible message. And this

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Speaker 3: is about that whole rebuilding our reputation, rebuilding our lifestyle,

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Speaker 3: all three of those. While these things are happening, it's

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Speaker 3: putting everybody at risk. I'm ast frustrated. Police some more

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Speaker 3: So those changes have been made. The police now have

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Bill, just a couple of quick ones that I

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Speaker 3: No, No, it's not a cost saving measure, Katie. I

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Speaker 3: think it was a mutual agreement between the Eels and US,

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Speaker 2: A Dolphin supporter. Mate, let's go Queensday.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, well, if I'm sad to see these Heels goes,

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Speaker 2: Is that a special? Is that an insight? Are you?

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Speaker 3: It could be a conflict of interesting Katie, I reckon, look,

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Speaker 1: Go the Dolphins, I say, Bill, Just a couple of

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Speaker 2: So do we know exactly.

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Speaker 3: I'd have to go and check on the dates, Katy.

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Speaker 1: twenty ninth Friday, the twenty ninth of November. Bill, do

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Speaker 3: I can categorically say I haven't received an invitation. I

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Speaker 3: So I said I haven't received an invitation to attend.

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Speaker 3: It's about celebrating them, and said, celebrating the resilience of

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Speaker 3: because funnily enough, Alice Springs paid a large part in

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Speaker 3: the people of Alice opened their arms and took them in.

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Speaker 3: So that's a territory appropriates for everybody.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it truly is. Well.

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Speaker 1: Bill Yan, the Treasurer and also Minister for Logistics and Infrastructure,

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Speaker 1: really appreciate your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for having a chat with us.

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Speaker 1: Che K.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a great day you too, Thank you