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Speaker 1: Now joining us live on the line from Catherine. One

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Speaker 1: of our mates in Katherine Nikki from the coffee club.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Nikki, Good morning Katie. How good morning listeners.

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Speaker 1: How are you going? How how are the people of

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Speaker 1: Catherine at the moment?

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Speaker 2: A look, this face is really resilient. Some people obviously

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Speaker 2: have had it harder than others. Your heartbreaks for them.

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Speaker 2: People are coming in to the coffee club, lots of hugs,

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Speaker 2: a few tears together. But we're pretty tough down here.

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Speaker 1: I know you guys are. But Nikki, what was it like?

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Speaker 1: What's it been like over the last week? How's the

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Speaker 1: coffee club fared? Did you have much damage? And and

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Speaker 1: you know what's the cleanup been like along the main street?

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Speaker 2: Were we the main street was on lockdown? I must emit.

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty impressed this week. You know the guys out

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Speaker 2: there that do our regular clean up on the main street,

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Speaker 2: they're out there mowing cutting everything down. It's looking really

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Speaker 2: good at the moment. They were quick to get it

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Speaker 2: back to normal. That I didn't have much in the

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Speaker 2: coffee club. I'm lucky. I'm quite high set, so I

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Speaker 2: was one of the lucky ones. But in saying that,

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Speaker 2: we had a lot of damage through the roof, right.

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Speaker 1: And so what does that mean in terms of you

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Speaker 1: know that longer term sort of you know, like I

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Speaker 1: guess as we're looking at this cyclone that's going to

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Speaker 1: hit across Far North Queen zone and potentially bring more rain,

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Speaker 1: what's it going to mean for you guys if there's

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Speaker 1: damage to the roof.

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Speaker 2: I think we're just getting it tarped up at the moment.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, they're onto it and getting it fixed. So

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Speaker 2: just even for now with this cyclhone, incredible, Nikki.

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Speaker 1: It's been in wild, hasn't it? Like I cannot remember

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Speaker 1: a wet season that's been like this, And now to

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Speaker 1: think you know that this cyclone we've all got our

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Speaker 1: eyes on this cyclone next, Like how are people in

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Speaker 1: Catherine feeling as it approaches Far North Queens Lane and

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Speaker 1: we just don't know what kind of rain it's gonna bring.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's I think there's a lot of what I'm experiencing.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of anxiety. It's on everyone's minds. It

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Speaker 2: sounds pretty quiet. I think a lot of people are

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Speaker 2: preparing just in case.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I reckon, you'd be right, I know, for everybody

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Speaker 1: you know, that's sort of how we're feeling, Nikki. How

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Speaker 1: have things been sort of more broadly around town. I mean,

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Speaker 1: have you got many people in from different communities as

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Speaker 1: you know it is like social cohesion pretty good at

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Speaker 1: the moment, or are you having to still worry about

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Speaker 1: issues of crime as you're cleaning.

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Speaker 2: Up it has an eyes Oh my goodness. The first

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Speaker 2: night either Satday, I spent the whole night glued to

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Speaker 2: my phone, thinking, my god, I'm going to get broken into.

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Speaker 2: I must admit the police, you know, closing off the

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Speaker 2: main street and there were police out on patrol and

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Speaker 2: thank goodness for Trenton is deadly tready and giving updates

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Speaker 2: keeping us informed because of course we lost powers for

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Speaker 2: three days. So the cameras went down and I had

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Speaker 2: this you know, this fair I just went on, no,

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Speaker 2: not my windows. But it was pretty good. It has

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Speaker 2: been really good, actually, yeah, and the town's sort of

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Speaker 2: feeling back to normal and the positivity down here is

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Speaker 2: this beautiful. You know this, this town is amazing.

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Speaker 1: I'm pleased to hear that. I'm really pleased.

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Speaker 2: To hear that.

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Speaker 1: Now in terms of the government response as well, how

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Speaker 1: are people feeling at the moment, like, you know, do

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Speaker 1: you feel as though you've been supported? Is enough being done?

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Speaker 2: I think so personally, And I can speak to you know,

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Speaker 2: on behalf of some friends. We've had discussions about it.

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Speaker 2: Joe Hersey has been absolutely amazing. She's been on the

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Speaker 2: ground and when you see good leadership like that out

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Speaker 2: and about and I had an issue and I thought, oh,

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Speaker 2: I can't really, you know, she's such a busy person.

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Speaker 2: She's like, no, you should have contacted me. You know,

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Speaker 2: the handouts with the flood relief, that's been good. I

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Speaker 2: think they're doing the best to their ability. And I

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Speaker 2: think a lot of people feel that. I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: going to be a big recovery.

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Speaker 1: It is, isn't it, Like, and across the board, even

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Speaker 1: when you're you know, like obviously talking to you and Catherine,

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Speaker 1: even when you look at you know, Daily River and

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Speaker 1: the impact that it's had on locals there and some

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Speaker 1: of those businesses. You know, we're going to catch up

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Speaker 1: with them shortly as well. But it's it's going to

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Speaker 1: be a massive recovery effort right across the board.

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Speaker 2: Oh definitely. And you know I had to I had

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Speaker 2: no electricity. The cost to the business obviously I was

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Speaker 2: worried about my staff as well. We opened up as

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Speaker 2: soon as we could to keep them employed. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of factors and a lot of things. I

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Speaker 2: think when you've got a small business, there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of pressure anyway, and then you add something like this

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Speaker 2: on and it just amplifies it.

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Speaker 1: Without a doubt. Look, I feel for you. I can't

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Speaker 1: imagine what it's been like. But like you said, right

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Speaker 1: from the get go, you guys are territory tough, and

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Speaker 1: I've no doubt that people are walking into the coffee

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Speaker 1: club and you've all got smiles on your faces. You're

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Speaker 1: probably sharing a hug, you know, as as you share

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Speaker 1: stories as well. And I bet you everybody's happy that

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Speaker 1: you reopened.

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Speaker 2: Oh and it's been great because you worry. We've got

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Speaker 2: our regulars that come in and sort of wondering how

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Speaker 2: they said through where they lived, because it was just

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Speaker 2: bizarre how some well, I don't know. I've never been

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Speaker 2: through a flood, so I just consumed the whole area

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Speaker 2: with flood. But somehowses are worse off than others, and

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Speaker 2: so it's great. It's great that the community is coming

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Speaker 2: together and good to listen to their stories and talk

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Speaker 2: about it. But and just everyone helping, you know, people

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Speaker 2: coming in. Are you okay? Is there anything that we

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Speaker 2: can do? It's just it's a beautiful town. Yeah it is.

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Speaker 1: Hey. I did I giggle when I watched one of

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Speaker 1: Trent's videos and he rode past the coffee club and

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Speaker 1: he was giving a bit of an update on the

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Speaker 1: coffee club. But he was saying, you know, nobody drive

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Speaker 1: down the street because you're causing you know, you're creating

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Speaker 1: that bit of a wave and you don't want the

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Speaker 1: water going in. I just I loved that, even in

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Speaker 1: you know, the darkest hour for Catherine, he was so

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Speaker 1: real and just such a good bloke about it all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was so he was he was just perfect.

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Speaker 2: He was informative. I've learned more about floodwaters and how

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Speaker 2: they work in rain patterns. And then he was he

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Speaker 2: was humorous as well, so he sort of took that edge.

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Speaker 2: I think the town sane. Well, I know, he kept

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Speaker 2: me saying, good book spot on.

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Speaker 1: I think we need him to be a correspondent in

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Speaker 1: Catherine doing a phenomenal job.

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Speaker 2: And we definitely need that bronze statue of him as well,

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Speaker 2: I think, but there's people like that the whole town.

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Speaker 2: Just then, you know, they came. I was actually flooded

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Speaker 2: in out of town so I couldn't get in here.

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Speaker 2: They came and did sand bags for me. I had

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Speaker 2: random people stopping and taking photos and saying, Nikki, your

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Speaker 2: place is all right, you know. So it was just incredible.

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Speaker 1: Oh good. I love seeing that within the community and

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Speaker 1: people keeping an eye out for each other. Nikki, I

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Speaker 1: hope that things go calmly over the weekend. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're keeping an eye on this tropical cyclone and you

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Speaker 1: know how much rain it may or may not bring.

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Speaker 1: But I hope that things go well over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: And no doubt we'll catch up with you soon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you lovely to.

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Speaker 1: Catch up with you and all the beast to everybody

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Speaker 1: and Catherine and we're thinking of you guys.

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Speaker 2: Ah, fantastic, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Nikki,