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Speaker 1: The Member for Solomon Luke Goslin. Good morning to you, Luke.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie Luke.

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Speaker 1: I've got a text message from you and I thought

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Speaker 1: let's get him on and Luke firstley, what is your

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Speaker 1: reaction to this morning's announcement or well, to the fact

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Speaker 1: that the Prime Minister's going to be here talking further

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Speaker 1: about this seven hundred and forty seven million dollar Defense up.

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Speaker 2: Great, it's great that the Prime minister's visiting. Darwin. Has

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Speaker 2: been almost two years since he's been here, and as

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Speaker 2: you know, Katie, I've been inviting him periodically over that

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Speaker 2: time to get him up here, knowing that you know,

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Speaker 2: he's all about the announcement. So if he the quicker

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Speaker 2: he gets up here, the quicker he makes the will

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Speaker 2: in this case a re announcement of twenty nineteen tender.

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Speaker 2: The figure is a bit higher by now, just because

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Speaker 2: of the time that's a lapse since then. What Dave

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Speaker 2: Malone and I and others have been trying to get

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Speaker 2: Defense and the federal government to do is to stop

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Speaker 2: pushing the timelines out to the right, as in, pushing

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Speaker 2: the work back. It might be good for their political purposes,

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Speaker 2: but we need this infrastructure up and running a shap

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Speaker 2: and I've had a mobile office this morning in Stuart Park.

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Speaker 2: Talk to a number of tradees, both when I was

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Speaker 2: getting coffees earlier this morning and then on the side

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Speaker 2: of the road, and they're saying, you know, there's a

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Speaker 2: bit of work around, but this work with the training

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Speaker 2: ranges will be very welcome. But it's got to as

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Speaker 2: Dave Malone has been working on on others, it's got

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Speaker 2: to make sure that local companies get to go and

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Speaker 2: it just doesn't go all the big companies from down south.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you spot on. You know, we've got to make

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Speaker 1: sure that if we're talking here about such a phenomenal

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Speaker 1: amount of money seven hundred and forty seven million dollars,

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Speaker 1: it does need to go to our local contractors. We've

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Speaker 1: got to make sure that territorians benefit from this investment

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Speaker 1: into the territory. You did say then, Luke or at

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Speaker 1: the start of what you were pointing out, that sees

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Speaker 1: just money being re announced. So are you telling me

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Speaker 1: this morning that this is not new funding.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, basically, Katie was they tend to went out in

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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen. I think what they've done is they've included

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Speaker 2: an extra element. So that extra element might be new,

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Speaker 2: but you know it's designed for the front page of

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Speaker 2: the paper, and you know that we'll get some people's

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Speaker 2: attention and they'll think, yep, this is good news, which

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Speaker 2: it is. But what I'm trying to stress is that

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Speaker 2: if we had got the Prime Minister here before the

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Speaker 2: two year mark, maybe some of this work would have

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Speaker 2: already been going and we could have had all our

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Speaker 2: local companies engaged. So I welcome it, but I just

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Speaker 2: would like the Prime Minister to visit more often and

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Speaker 2: to make more announcements, particularly when it comes to our

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Speaker 2: infrastructure up here. And obviously there's still the outstanding issue

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Speaker 2: of control of the Darleen Port that he needs to

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Speaker 2: address whilst he's here in Darwin today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt he'll be asked questions about the Darleenport.

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Speaker 1: We are hoping that we're going to be able to

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Speaker 1: get him on the show at some point. I do

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Speaker 1: want to just ask you very quickly, though, Luke. We

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Speaker 1: know that the increased tensions between China and the West,

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Speaker 1: they've certainly been widely reported. Do you think that this

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Speaker 1: announcement puts the Northern Territory at a greater risk.

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Speaker 2: The announcement of this training base.

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Speaker 3: Well the money, yeah, no, that funding is about improving

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Speaker 3: what are pretty sparsely fitted out training ranges.

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Speaker 2: So will allow us to be a place where not

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Speaker 2: only have the trained Defense Force and our US allies,

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Speaker 2: but other partners from around our window specific region can train.

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Speaker 2: And that is a very good thing because we need

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Speaker 2: to be prepared for all contingencies. We know at the

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Speaker 2: moment we've had a range of cyclone related contingencies in

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Speaker 2: the region, but we also need to be prepared to

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Speaker 2: defend our sovereignty and also to take part in any

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Speaker 2: sorts of contingencies in our region that maintain the freedom

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Speaker 2: and open seas. But we all hope that the federal

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Speaker 2: government is engaging in de escalating tensions wherever they can,

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Speaker 2: so we need to be prepared, but we also need

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Speaker 2: sensible heads in the federal government to be de escalating tensions,

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Speaker 2: standing up for our rights, but also making sure that

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Speaker 2: as a nation, we own our critical strategic infrastructure and

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Speaker 2: we're prepared for the future, whatever it may be.

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Speaker 1: Luke Gosling, we are going to have to leave it there.

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Speaker 1: Good to speak with you this morning, Thanks.

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Speaker 2: So much, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Kady