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Speaker 1: I'm very pleased to say that. Joining me in the

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Speaker 1: studio right now is Sue Shearer, the CEO of the

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Speaker 1: Council of the Aging here in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, So.

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Speaker 3: Good morning kat you. Nice to see your smiling face again.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you on the show for the first

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Speaker 1: time this year. Yeah, thank you, Chuck. Yeah, good to

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Speaker 1: see you now. So there's plenty happening around the place.

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Speaker 1: There always is, but I want to ask you first off,

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Speaker 1: more cost of living relief is being offered for senior

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Speaker 1: Territorians the Seniors Recognition Scheme. Those cards are set to

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Speaker 1: be distributed in July.

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Speaker 3: That right, hopefully everybody has registered. You have to register

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Speaker 3: reregister every year. So the Department Churchie, Housing, Families and Community.

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Speaker 3: It's a mouthful, isn't I just say CHURCHI families know

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Speaker 3: that you are still on this earth and your dress

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Speaker 3: to make sure you've reregistered. That's for the Seniors Recognition

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Speaker 3: Scheme and the NT Concession, so they both go together

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Speaker 3: to be registered. So make sure of that otherwise you

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Speaker 3: won't get you five hundred dollars.

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Speaker 2: Now, what can that five hundred dollars be used for?

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Speaker 3: Soup? As we said a while ago, it's opened up

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Speaker 3: to almost everything except gambling, naughty products. You know, you

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Speaker 3: can't buy naughty products with us. And then there was

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Speaker 3: one other which escaped me at the moment, alcoholry. Of

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Speaker 3: course major one obviously alcohol. But while while it does

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Speaker 3: provide quite a bit of relief, it hasn't been index

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Speaker 3: to CPI. It came in into eighteen. The cards actually

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Speaker 3: the same. And as we know, the two major issues

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Speaker 3: while they're out doing the shopping, so they really have

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Speaker 3: to look at We did write to the previous Chief

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Speaker 3: saying it has to be at least indext to the CPI.

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Speaker 1: And so that point that you made there about cost

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Speaker 1: You know, I reckon it's across the board for everybody,

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Speaker 2: It's great, it is great.

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Speaker 3: It has to keep up, it has to keep up

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Speaker 3: there's a gap there till you get the pension. So

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Speaker 3: they really do need rather than spend three million dollars

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Speaker 3: moving the library, Let's look after people who can't look

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Speaker 3: after themselves properly. Let's get real about this. It's rather

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Speaker 3: rather disgusting that this hasn't been index to the CPI

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Speaker 3: and why move the library? Really, for the cost of

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Speaker 1: It's a bloody good question with all of us want

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Speaker 3: So really, you know, I don't often get angry, but

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: I think our seniors are so wonderful in our community

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Speaker 1: So just on the cost of living for a moment.

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Speaker 3: I'd say minimum one hundred, one hundred and fifty.

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Speaker 2: So it should be at six hundred, six hundred and fifty.

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Speaker 3: Fifty at least and then index it.

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Speaker 3: Your Chief Minister, and I've written to the Minister for Seniors,

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Speaker 3: Oh exactly, it's common sense really that the library there

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Speaker 1: So on the safety side of things, you know, it

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Speaker 3: Scared and frightened and they're prisoners in their own homes.

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Speaker 3: They won't go shopping at Casarina, especially after what happened

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Speaker 3: so we'll send some more down to Alice Springs. We

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Speaker 3: we'll order probably five hundred six hundred, and victims of

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Speaker 1: So that's pretty extraordinary that our Northern Territory seniors have to.

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Speaker 2: Go to that level where you're.

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Speaker 1: Purchasing personal alarms for our seniors because they don't feel safe.

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Speaker 3: They don't feel safe and they can attach it to

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Speaker 1: Really, it actually makes me feel really sad they're seniors

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Speaker 3: It's happening a lot. Because I've also been asked from

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Speaker 1: Is there anything that we can do, you know, as

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Speaker 3: If they would like to, that would be wonderful. And

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Speaker 3: But I'm a actually I just remembered that the bus

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Speaker 1: So good on you guys that you're organizing. You know,

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Speaker 1: these these personal alarms. Now we have already had people

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Speaker 1: get in contact asking can you please remind us again

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Speaker 3: Well, as I said, they.

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Speaker 2: Can get one from you, purchase at whatever they need

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Speaker 3: Well, we're actually hopefully giving most of them away, but

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Speaker 3: we've just put the order in so they'll be they'll

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Speaker 3: I like it sooner, but we have to. We have

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Speaker 3: to do that, and they will be our expo is

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Speaker 3: in May, but hopefully obviously before then. But it just

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Speaker 3: depends on the supply. As you know. Sometimes excuse me,

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Speaker 3: it's harder to get them. But they will be first

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Speaker 3: of all for our members and after that for vulnerable

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's in contact with you at Kodu.

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Speaker 3: They can get on our on our website and put

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Speaker 3: it ordered. We'd love to order, Like you know, there's

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Speaker 3: thirty thousand seniors on our database. We'd love to order

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Speaker 3: thirty thousand, you know. But obviously it's a needs basis

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Speaker 3: as well, and this is not out of our core funding.

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Speaker 3: This is the generosity of people like the Palmestan Regional

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Speaker 3: Business Association, Australia Post and hopefully Power and Water when

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Speaker 3: we put it, when we put that grant in for

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Speaker 3: their five thousand dollars which is for community benefit, I

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Speaker 3: think this will benefit the community more than a lot

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Speaker 3: of other things that would be happening. Really, if it

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Speaker 3: worth it, isn't it, Katie?

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Speaker 1: It absolutely is so, Shira, Honestly, I feel really sad

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Speaker 1: hearing that our seniors are in that position. And I

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Speaker 1: know it's not absolutely everybody probably that feels that way.

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Speaker 2: What can be done here?

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Speaker 1: You know? Like I just feel like we've got so

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Speaker 1: many situations at the moment where people are being impacted

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Speaker 3: Yep, that's right. Well, and as you know, they've worked

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Speaker 3: awfully hard, they've volunteered, they've worked really hard. And when

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Speaker 3: we've got the Australian Brewer of Statistics, we have the

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Speaker 3: fastest growing seniors over sixty five territory in a long church.

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Speaker 3: You know's where the government really the next one is

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Speaker 3: the Act, so we really do have to look at

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Speaker 3: things like how can we make them safe? Do we

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Speaker 3: have more retirement villages? I mean it was it was

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Speaker 3: if they got in they will build a retirement village

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Speaker 3: in Alice Springs and a retirement village in the rural.

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Speaker 3: So what year is it again, Katie refresh my.

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Speaker 2: Member twenty twenty three?

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Speaker 3: Well, so where is a team or where is it?

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Speaker 2: Well, sou Shier.

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Speaker 1: I always appreciate your time, but thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for coming in this morning and being really bluntly honest.

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Speaker 1: And I think that it is very much required. We've

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Speaker 1: passed the point of, you know, of tiptoeing around some

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Speaker 1: of these issues because we need to make sure that

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Speaker 1: our sceniors are safe.

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Speaker 3: Exactly we want to We purport to be the voice

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Speaker 3: of seniors and we want to represent them and that's

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Speaker 3: all their concerns. So watch that pink song. Don't want

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Speaker 3: to play nice anymore, you know.

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Speaker 1: So shier. Thank you, as always for your time, the

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Speaker 1: CEO of the Council of the Agent here in the

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Speaker 1: Northern terrat Thanks for coming on