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Speaker 1: An incredibly busy day this morning.

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Speaker 2: Already now joining me live in the studio is the

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Speaker 2: Chief Minister of.

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Speaker 1: The Northern Territory, Lea Finocchi.

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Speaker 3: A O, good morning, Lea, good morning Katie. Into your listeners.

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Speaker 2: Now, Liah's some good news this morning. To kick things off.

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Speaker 2: The governments say that they are delivering on their election

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Speaker 2: commitment to ease cost of living pressures by freezing car

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Speaker 2: registration fees as well as providing a free driver's license

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Speaker 2: for a year and enabling three year trailer registrations. So,

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Speaker 2: as I understand it, it's going to be effective immediately.

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Speaker 2: The government's freezing all registration fees for light vehicles at

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Speaker 2: their current rate until the first of July twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Tell us exactly what this means.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's another great election commitment that we've been able

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Speaker 3: to tick off at the last ten weeks have been

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Speaker 3: so busy, Katie, but we just really wanted to restore

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Speaker 3: confidence in Territorians that when you work hard and you

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Speaker 3: put your mind to something, things can be achieved. And

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Speaker 3: so you know, we've had our reducing crime package, We've

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Speaker 3: got a whole raft of things out the door, and

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Speaker 3: now our cost of living pressure at the MVR are

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Speaker 3: also being released, so there's a few things in it

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Speaker 3: for everyone. There's of course three year trailer rego which

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Speaker 3: saves people time. Everyone universally dislikes lining up at the MVR.

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Speaker 3: No disrespect to the lovely people working there, it's just

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Speaker 3: not a great way to spend time. And then of

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Speaker 3: course the free driver's licenses for one year and the

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Speaker 3: freezing of those redio prices which just help that little

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Speaker 3: bit at a really tough time, particularly heading into Christmas.

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Speaker 1: What happens if you've.

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Speaker 2: Already if you've already paid your driver's license, well, you know,

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Speaker 2: like you're somebody who's done the five years or.

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Speaker 1: Something like that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so the licenses is going to go from one

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Speaker 3: January twenty five so starting next year, to one to

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Speaker 3: I believe it's over one hundred thousand territories will benefit

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Speaker 3: from it, so perhaps everyone won't, but of course everyone

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Speaker 3: will have the opportunity to benefit from the redgo freeze.

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Speaker 3: And then of course the trailer registration extensions.

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Speaker 2: Do we know how much this is costing the Northern

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Speaker 2: Territory government to deliver, because I guess that's a big

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Speaker 2: question that a lot of people ask when we do

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Speaker 2: have these kinds of announcements. We appreciate it, but we

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Speaker 2: also don't want to be paying for it in other ways.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're absolutely right, Katie, and everything has a cost.

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Speaker 3: I believe it was a couple of million dollars on

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Speaker 3: this one, Katie, But I can get the treasurer to

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Speaker 3: circle back to you on that one. But it's about

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Speaker 3: spending our money prudently. You know, people do need wide

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Speaker 3: ranging relief at the moment, but we're very conscious of

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Speaker 3: our debt levels and that's why we've found that near

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Speaker 3: two hundred million dollars in savings across a range of

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Speaker 3: reprioritized projects. We're really confident going forward we'll be able

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Speaker 3: to spend money wisely, not spend money on things that

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Speaker 2: LEA very quick one one here that says Hi Katie

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Speaker 2: and co. Regarding freezing red Joe costs. I just heard

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Speaker 3: So it's from I believe it's from today until one

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Speaker 1: To perfect now.

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Speaker 2: Or we might even see if we can get some

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Speaker 2: the morning. Now, I want to move along because there

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Speaker 2: is so much happening and shocking news flowing through. Late

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Speaker 2: Minister for Corrections, Jared Maylee, confirmed that the deliberate act

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Speaker 2: of vandalism was caused by six youth detainees aged between

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Speaker 2: As I understand it now inoperable. It is appalling. There

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Speaker 2: is no other way to put it. This youth center

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Speaker 3: It's disgusting, Katie, absolutely abhorrent, disgusting behavior from young people

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Speaker 3: I urge people to look to this example when we

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Speaker 3: Labor to deliver therapeutic support and all of these other

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Speaker 3: Now this was destroyed within a matter of minutes. Now

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Speaker 3: to fix. And again this is why we put Youth

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Speaker 1: So is there still.

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Speaker 2: Enough capacity now for all the detainees with those rooms

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Speaker 2: now inoperable?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Corrections are doing Oh sorry.

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Speaker 1: Katie, that's all right. I might get you safer. We

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Corrections of doing an amazing job. Gosh, they're

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Speaker 3: incredible professionals, which again is exactly why Youth Justice has

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Speaker 1: So held that off.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that was always the plan. But certainly

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Speaker 3: we're just having to really watch those numbers now given

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Speaker 3: But it's just such a joke, Katie. You think of

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Speaker 2: So do you know, na what the latests in terms

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Speaker 3: No, we're trying to get that done urgently. The department

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Speaker 3: You know, we're not going to do a Natasha files,

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Speaker 3: when my CLP government makes decisions. Some people might think

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Speaker 1: Well, we actually.

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Speaker 2: Spoke to other police life last week and they'd sort

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Speaker 2: and some of the behavior is utterly appalling. Now to

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Speaker 3: I certainly hope so, Katie. I know police are investigating it,

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Speaker 3: and that would certainly be anyone's expectation. If you've done

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Speaker 3: we're actually exploring legislative reform in that space as well

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Speaker 3: to make sure that our laws. You know, if you

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Speaker 2: We also know, though, that a youth detainee allegedly assaulted

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Speaker 1: To be saying this is utterly appalling behavior.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's worse than that. It's just abhorrent and unacceptable.

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Speaker 3: there's so much work to do, Katie. This is just

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Speaker 3: and you know there's new rules in place. Community expectation

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Speaker 1: Just before we move along.

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Speaker 2: Is there a problem here that there is actually not

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Speaker 3: absolute demand pressures. I'm not going to sugarcoat that, and

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Speaker 3: Labour should hang their head in shame for the lies

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Speaker 2: Now, while we seem to be unable to get a

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Speaker 2: hold of the bad behavior of some of our teenagers

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Speaker 2: Leah, how is this actually going to be policed, because

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Speaker 2: Look, let's move along, because as I said, there is

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Speaker 1: Utterly terrifying.

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Speaker 2: Not only walking to school, but that's where they actually

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Speaker 2: And you know, I have been in a situation at

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Speaker 1: You know, this is it's not good.

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Speaker 3: It's a tragedy what has happened to the territory. There's

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Speaker 3: We must make the territory safe. That's my life's goal

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Speaker 2: Chief Minestro, I just want to get your reaction to

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Speaker 1: The Australian understands that it will.

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Speaker 2: Be alleged that the NAJA officer laid a bizarre trial

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Speaker 3: I mean, some of this stuff is just so unbelievable,

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Speaker 3: If they're true, they're incredibly serious. I'm sure all of

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Speaker 2: R Absolutely, it's utterly embarrassing, amazing. Do you think that

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Speaker 2: A couple of quick ones, the Amphibious Aircraft AAI. Is

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Speaker 3: So I can confirm that they were given a two

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Speaker 2: So the Northern Territory government's got a three million dollar

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Speaker 1: In this company.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 2: They're no longer operating out of the airport like they

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Speaker 1: That's right, while we gave them alone.

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Speaker 3: Is that's right, That's exactly right. I think the good

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Speaker 3: So we're keeping on top of this issue, and it's

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Speaker 1: Is there a clause for us to get it back?

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Speaker 3: Well, that's what we're working through now to work out

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is a bit bloody embarrassing, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that sounds of it.

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Speaker 3: That's right, And I think that that's all part of

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Speaker 3: People are absolutely sick and tired of listening to this

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Speaker 2: So from your perspective, now with AIO, what are you like?

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Speaker 1: What will you be doing?

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Speaker 2: So you've asked them now to basically justify why they're

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Speaker 3: So Robin Carl the Minister for Business, is taking the

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Speaker 1: Do we even know if this company is still operating?

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Speaker 3: I believe they are in the United States, that's my understanding.

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Speaker 2: So they're now operating in the United States and the

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Speaker 1: What a joke, Yeah it is, it's.

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Speaker 3: It's a joke, Katie. I don't know what else to

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Speaker 1: Alright, very quick one.

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Speaker 3: Yes, so we're just putting the finishing touches on that.

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Speaker 3: It'll certainly be this side of Christmas, I'm hoping in

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Speaker 3: the next few weeks. But we're right on top of

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Speaker 3: it and we know it's something people are really excited

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Speaker 3: about and looking forward to the big reveal there.

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Speaker 2: Leah, thanks so much for your Tom really appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Following up as well on the AI situation.

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Speaker 3: I've got a little update about the driver's licenses to

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Speaker 3: your listener, So if your license isn't due to expire,

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Speaker 3: you can still apply to have that extra twelve month

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Speaker 3: added to your account for free, and all the details

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Speaker 3: of this plan are on the MVR website, so you

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Speaker 3: can go to MVR dot NT, dot gov dot AU

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Speaker 3: and check out how you're eligible and all the details

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Speaker 3: are on there.

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Speaker 2: Really appreciate your time. Thanks so much for joining us

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Speaker 2: this morning, Chief Minister.

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Speaker 3: Take care everyone.

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