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Speaker 1: Well, we've got the premiere on the line. We haven't

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Speaker 1: spoken to Roger Cook for a while. He's wedding the wings,

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Speaker 1: but he has COVID. It's the premiere. Good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 2: How COVID the home last year?

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Speaker 3: What is it's twenty right? It is?

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Speaker 2: But you know it's still out there, still going around.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and look at the health professionals are telling us.

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Speaker 3: but you know, just important that people understand that it's

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Speaker 4: I wonder what the use by dates are on those

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Speaker 4: COVID testing kick because I must.

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Speaker 2: I've still got a heap of them in the cupboard.

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Speaker 1: A look through something last week that were okay, we

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Speaker 1: one stage. Yes, you've answered the excreted question, Roger. That

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Speaker 1: feeling like rubbish, right, Oh look.

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Speaker 3: Good, look just about one hundred percent. I'll be back

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Speaker 3: on deck tomorrow, definitely. But it's just sort of taken

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Speaker 3: a taking a look and peel of the body today.

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Speaker 3: But it's I reckon. I'd probably need another day of

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Speaker 3: rest and look at that's perhaps the other message too,

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Speaker 3: is like don't underestimate this disease. You know, if you

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Speaker 3: don't give yourself the opportunity to rest before you go

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Speaker 3: with respect and of course make sure you don't go

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Speaker 3: all your symptoms and spread it around.

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Speaker 4: Oh you know, it's like we don't want it he

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Speaker 2: Learned from COVID, isn't it all right? Well, there's a

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you talked about cost of living pressures and funding

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So, Look, one of the key cost impacts on

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Speaker 3: get them into apprenticeship and traineeship role and we've had

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Speaker 3: an incredible amount of success with three hundred apprenticeships and

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Speaker 4: Reminding younger kids that what a what an appealing thing

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Speaker 2: We don't need any more content creations on TikTok.

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Speaker 4: Maybe time to go back to some of the basics

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Speaker 3: And looking particularly at the moment with our mining industry

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Speaker 2: I'm old now and I understand.

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Speaker 4: I understand what my dad was getting at when he

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Speaker 1: Still for all these years. So what about China next night?

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Speaker 1: What are your main goals with that trip heading overseas?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, as you know, China is our biggest trading

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Speaker 4: On a different note, youth advocate groups calling for the

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Speaker 3: Position remains as it was in day one. We have

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Speaker 3: We've also introduced our protected Entertainment Precinct laws which mean

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Speaker 4: It would be remiss with me to have you on

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Speaker 4: premiere for his chip for the up.

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Speaker 3: but it's a fourth right, winning in the Melbourne Cup.

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Speaker 3: of Japan. Thank you very much for giving me COVID

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Speaker 3: and I'll keep I'll keep half an.

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Speaker 4: Eye on that, all right, Well, thank you very much.

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