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Speaker 1: Someone who is on his feet and has been all weekend.

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Speaker 1: Matt Cunningham from Sky News. Good morning, Matt, will be yeah,

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Speaker 1: pretty well, where are you and how are things going.

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Speaker 2: On the house. There's he with the Chief Minister and

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Speaker 2: uh and Curtin Baying from the federal government, so that

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Speaker 2: I think we will be about funding announcement or something

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Speaker 2: along those lines. Yeah. He now been out and about

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Speaker 2: this morning down at the nightly floor shore or putting

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Speaker 2: your tree still down. Starting to see a few councils

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Speaker 2: worked out there getting the clean up operations underway. But

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Speaker 2: it's interesting to hear that your cargo to the kids today.

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Speaker 1: Oh mate, people are not happy And well, Matt, you

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Speaker 1: came and did across from our place yesterday you'd died

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Speaker 1: that we certainly need to take some green waste to

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Speaker 1: the team.

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Speaker 2: You've got about twenty You've got about twenty loads.

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Speaker 1: Then probably more.

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Speaker 2: You can't organize that, so his feet.

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Speaker 1: It maybe maybe Italians don't ever stop working, Matt, you

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Speaker 1: should know that, but yeah, it's like it's pretty wild

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Speaker 1: to think that you know that people aren't actually able

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Speaker 1: to take their their waste to the tip. The council

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Speaker 1: is definitely going to be copping some flak on this,

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Speaker 1: no doubt about it.

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Speaker 2: It's extraordinary. Like I mean, I'd like to hear the explanation,

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Speaker 2: and I mean I haven't been out there, but I

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Speaker 2: suspect there's probably a cute people out there to get in.

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Speaker 2: It's just going to be going to be absolute chaos.

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Speaker 2: So that that battles me. That one. Well, mate.

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Speaker 1: The other thing that people are pretty you know, finding

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Speaker 1: pretty extraordinary is that they can't get through to power

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Speaker 1: and water at all, and that there's really been not

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Speaker 1: a lot of communication from our essential services about the

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Speaker 1: power outages.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my pone was blowing up about that last night.

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Speaker 2: Well blew up all together and stopped working. But yeah, look,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I think, I know, there's been a

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Speaker 2: lot of sort of patting ourselves on the back and

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Speaker 2: saying we've done it bloody to a good job over

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Speaker 2: the past day or two. But I actually think it's

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Speaker 2: been problematic at some level of the way that hasn't

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Speaker 2: been handled from a communication point of view, even on Friday,

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Speaker 2: you know, on Friday morning when the cyclone warning was

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Speaker 2: declared at about seven thirty, you know, I think that

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Speaker 2: was at a time when most people were getting their

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Speaker 2: kids ready for school and were wondering that the schools

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Speaker 2: were going to be open and set et cetera. You know,

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Speaker 2: and I don't know. I mean even I try to

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Speaker 2: get someone to talk to at that point and got

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Speaker 2: told to send an email. I think there's just a

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Speaker 2: bit of an issue that these government departments, their communication departments,

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Speaker 2: they're actually, you know, for the last ten or fifteen

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Speaker 2: in the practice of avoiding communicating. And that's not how

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Speaker 2: that's not the way you can operate in an emergency situation.

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Speaker 2: And you know that was Power and water as well.

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Speaker 2: I mean, people are apoplectic about lack of communication from

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Speaker 2: power water yesterday and today.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and you shouldn't they be relying on your chief

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Speaker 1: minister to come out and communicate to everybody that actually

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Speaker 1: needs to be those various departments communicating what's going on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And you know I should add it's not

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Speaker 2: a slight on. You know. The work is the power

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Speaker 2: really working over time and doing a terrific job, working

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Speaker 2: as hard as they can to get everyone power back on.

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Speaker 2: But you know there's people in a communications team there

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Speaker 2: who get paid good money, you know who I think,

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Speaker 2: I don't know I just think they need to be

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Speaker 2: clear about what's going on because a lot of people

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Speaker 2: have got a lot of questions and they feel like

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Speaker 2: they're not betting answered it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly right. Well, look, I believe we're trying

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Speaker 1: to get power and water on. Hopefully we've got the

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Speaker 1: morning after ten o'clock this morning, so we'll try and

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Speaker 1: get to the bottom of some of this. Matt In

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Speaker 1: terms of what you've been out and seen over the

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Speaker 1: course of the weekend, quite a bit of damage about,

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Speaker 1: but we do seem to have fared fairly well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the worst damage I thought it was sor a

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Speaker 2: cavy house.

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Speaker 1: The roof.

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Speaker 2: Of the world, which is sitting serious. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: think this press conference we're about to have now, I

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Speaker 2: think there'll be some more questions asked about that. You know.

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Speaker 2: I think if if the roof is collapsing at Royal

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Speaker 2: Darwen Hospital, and it was pretty early in the piece

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Speaker 2: of that happened, that's happening when we're getting the edge

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Speaker 2: the edge of the category three cyclone, I think we've

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Speaker 2: got some serious questions to ask about how that building

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Speaker 2: would hold up if we got a serious cyclone that

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Speaker 2: made a direct hit on Darwin. I mean you've been

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Speaker 2: talking about this issue a bit over the past couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks, but that that hospital is not fit for

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Speaker 2: purpose anymore, and I think we've got to start asking

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Speaker 2: some real questions about whether it's time to start looking

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Speaker 2: at looking at alternative arrangements, as I know, you know

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Speaker 2: some people have been talking about in the past few weeks.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely well, we've spoken to the chief executive of the

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Speaker 1: Health Department who'd said that, you know, a few weeks

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Speaker 1: ago and said that we're literally at the point where

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Speaker 1: we need to start planning for a new Tourtory hospital.

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Speaker 1: And as you've touched on there to see that damage,

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Speaker 1: when we're really getting the outskirts of a cyclone, what

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Speaker 1: would happen if it actually hit us?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean that was a building that's

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Speaker 2: you know, obviously nearly fifty years old. You know, the

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Speaker 2: stories about that building have been well told. I mean

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Speaker 2: it's got snow shutters on the window because it was

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Speaker 2: based on a Canberra hospital that was based on a

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Speaker 2: Canadian one, I believe, so you know, it's well and

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Speaker 2: truly passed it to us date. But obviously building a

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Speaker 2: new hospital is going to trust an extraordinary amount of money.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, maybe our federal members can take up the

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Speaker 2: campaign will be I hope.

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Speaker 1: So well, Matt, I'll let you go. I know you've

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Speaker 1: got to get to that press conference. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for having a quick chat with us, No worry, thank you,