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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning. Sam, Well, we've had.

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Speaker 2: Such a phenomenal outpouring of love and generosity from people

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Speaker 2: around the country, but there's no denying it's been such

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Speaker 2: a hard start to the year. In Amongst those taking

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Speaker 2: action is Lifeline, who've just launched a dedicated bushfire recovery

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Speaker 2: phone line to provide support for those affected by fires.

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Speaker 2: The chairman of Lifeline is our mate John Brogden. Hello, John,

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Speaker 2: how are you Gooday?

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Speaker 1: Guys, how are you very well?

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Speaker 2: You've said that the mental health battle is really the

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Speaker 2: crisis that comes after the crisis.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. I mean, thank god, we're through that

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Speaker 1: heretic bush fire season. We've come to the end of that.

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Speaker 1: And as Shane fit Simmons said when we were launching

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Speaker 1: this line yesterday, you know, all the fires are either out,

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Speaker 1: were pretty much contained. So that's that's enormous that we've

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Speaker 1: got that done. But what's even bigger is the recovery,

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Speaker 1: and that's going to take years and years, and people's

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Speaker 1: mental health is already under stress, and in many cases

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Speaker 1: yet is yet to get under the distress that will

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Speaker 1: come when they begin to realize just how long it's

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Speaker 1: taking to get their life back together.

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Speaker 3: And that's the whole thing about it, isn't it. Once

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Speaker 3: the adrenaline and everything settles down, then you have to

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Speaker 3: deal with the reality.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's right, and you know, it's just not possible

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Speaker 1: to replace two thousand houses in six months, twelve months,

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Speaker 1: eighteen months. It's not possible for those businesses to recover,

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Speaker 1: it's not possible for those farms to restock, and it's

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Speaker 1: going to take a long time. And some people probably

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Speaker 1: feel like they're okay at the moment, but they'll wake

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Speaker 1: up in six months, twelve months, eighteen months and realize

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Speaker 1: things aren't going the way they like, and the distress

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Speaker 1: will take a long time. And it's more than just

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Speaker 1: a stress. I mean, this is a warlike situation when

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Speaker 1: we really look at it. Houses being burnt to the ground,

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Speaker 1: many in a whole street, and main street's being burnt down,

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Speaker 1: and the likes of which I don't think we've ever

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Speaker 1: seen in Australia, certainly not in our lifetime.

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Speaker 3: Jobs lost co.

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Speaker 1: Are there, John, Yes? Sorry?

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Speaker 2: And jobs lost too, well, that's right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's not a person in that in

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Speaker 1: those bush fire effect there is all around the country

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Speaker 1: because Lifeline is a national service. Who haven't been affected

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Speaker 1: directly or indirectly. Andrew Constance is the members of BEGA,

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Speaker 1: who's half of his lecture, I think has been affected

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Speaker 1: by it. So if not more, he said, you know,

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Speaker 1: are people now after having the sires stop thinking they

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Speaker 1: could keep their business up. Now they're walking away from

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Speaker 1: their business because it's not working. Farmers are walking off

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Speaker 1: their farms now. So many of us would have thought too,

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Speaker 1: the size over everything, we'll get back to normal. I

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Speaker 1: know that's a sort of very speedy way to think

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Speaker 1: of it, but it's not the case. And people's mental illness,

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Speaker 1: having suffered the traumas that they suffered and seen the

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Speaker 1: things they've seen, and death and all of those sorts

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Speaker 1: of things mean that Lifeline has provided a very specific

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Speaker 1: line into those communities all around the country called thirteen HLP.

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Speaker 1: Thankfully we already owned that number, so we're putting out

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Speaker 1: into play. That'll be twenty four hours a day, seven

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Speaker 1: days a week, with staff who are trained specifically to

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Speaker 1: deal with the sorts of trauma the Bushwa communities are experiencing.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's great, and if you're feeling that right now,

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Speaker 3: you ring that number thirteen. Help, so that's thirteen forty

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Speaker 3: three fifty seven. Jay bro, it's great to talk to you.

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Speaker 3: Has Lucy been baking any of those muffins?

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Speaker 1: Infrastructure? Jones, the infrastructure, infrastructure.

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Speaker 3: We want him as well. He's baking infrastructure. She what

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Speaker 3: is she?

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Speaker 1: Good?

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Speaker 3: Haggards?

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Speaker 1: Your missus is? Is he great?

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Speaker 3: Did she bake us up another airport?

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Speaker 1: Great? We'll be in tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 3: No way, It's great to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: See you guys. Thanks for your support.

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Speaker 3: John Brogden then

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Speaker 1: Joins the and Amanda in the morning one point seven

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Speaker 1: tem