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Speaker 1: Now we do know that the Northern Land Council has

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Speaker 1: suspended permits to enter and we'll remain on top end

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Speaker 1: Aboriginal Land from midday yesterday until further notice. It does

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Speaker 1: follow on from the announcement of the COVID nineteen lockdown. Now,

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Speaker 1: the nlc's acting Chief executive Officer, Joe Martin Jard joins

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Speaker 1: me on the line right now.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Joe.

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Speaker 3: Hi, Hi Katie, thanks for having me back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Joe, talk us through the situation at the moment for

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Speaker 1: remote communities, can people Obviously people aren't able to head

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Speaker 1: into those communities at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Are they.

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Speaker 3: Only essential workers? And at this stage and I just

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Speaker 3: want to put a shout out to all the trackees

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Speaker 3: and tradees and airline workers and the police and everyone

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Speaker 3: else who are you are keeping us safe out bush yep.

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Speaker 3: So it's just you know, the non essential tourists and

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Speaker 3: people like that, and it's only suspended and will take

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Speaker 3: some health advice from the government on Friday and reassess

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Speaker 3: things and see where we're up to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, I think it's fair enough.

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Speaker 1: You've got to make sure we have to make sure

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Speaker 1: that those living in our remote communities asked are able

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Speaker 1: to stay safe. How are people feeling in some of

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Speaker 1: those communities at the moment, Joe.

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Speaker 3: They're quite alarmed, as you can imagine, and they're only

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Speaker 3: wanting essential, well very essential workers. And yeah there are

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Speaker 3: you know, not the first time we've been through a pandemic,

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Speaker 3: so sorry this kind of emergency, Yeah, yeah, yeah, they

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Speaker 3: just want people to follow the rules. And if you're

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Speaker 3: in Darwin or Catherine and you're in a lockdown, please

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Speaker 3: stay where you are.

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Speaker 1: And Joe, with residents that are maybe here in Darwin

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Speaker 1: at the moment, but their full time home is one

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Speaker 1: of the communities, are they able to get back or

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Speaker 1: do they need to stay in town right now?

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Speaker 3: It's best to stay in town for as long as

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Speaker 3: the lockdowns in place, and to try to return is

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Speaker 3: probably putting themselves at risk and other people at risk.

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Speaker 3: You know, we'd like to see everyone get vaccinated, of course,

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Speaker 3: and also do negative testing. Yeah, but we know from

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Speaker 3: all the evidence that that's not feel pressed. You know,

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Speaker 3: this latest case, this blake didn't test positive until three

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Speaker 3: days are free left quarantine, So you know, we're all

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Speaker 3: a bit worried about that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and we've been talking a bit more about

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Speaker 1: that this morning as well. I know that a lot

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Speaker 1: of people are feeling pretty upset. I suppose that we've

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Speaker 1: entered into this three day lockdown and we're in the

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Speaker 1: situation that we are because on day seventeen someone's tested positive.

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Speaker 1: I mean, do we need to, like from your perspective,

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Speaker 1: on the nlc's perspective, do we maybe need to have

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Speaker 1: a bit of a relook at, you know, when we

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Speaker 1: test people who've traveled from from somewhere international to the

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Speaker 1: northern territory.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, Katie. And you know, like another three days really

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Speaker 3: is bugarall when you compare to what thousands of people

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Speaker 3: living in Darwin now and Catherine we're all in bloody lockdown.

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Speaker 1: Pardon the French, No, mate, it's not lost on us

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Speaker 1: where okay with that?

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Speaker 2: Joe?

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Speaker 1: I like the I like it when people are passionate

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Speaker 1: and real about what they're talking about. Mate, on those

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Speaker 1: vaccination rates in our remote communities.

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Speaker 2: How's it all rolling out?

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Speaker 3: From your perspective, I think it's going as well as

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Speaker 3: as it could, but look just not fair enough. We're

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Speaker 3: hearing reports from the eastern part of Catherine for example,

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Speaker 3: where the rollouts patchy, to put it best, and then

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Speaker 3: you compare that to places like man and Greta is

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Speaker 3: going absolutely game buses and you know they're doing the

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Speaker 3: right thing. So yeah, we just want to see everyone vaccinated,

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Speaker 3: to be frank with you, and so far it's getting

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Speaker 3: out there, but yeah, we just need everyone to get vaccinated.

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Speaker 1: Has there been much hesitancy like that vaccination hesitancy from

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Speaker 1: some of the different communities, Joe.

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Speaker 3: There has been some hesitancy, and you know there's selling

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Speaker 3: anti vaxines getting around filling people's heads with nonsense. But

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Speaker 3: thank heavens, we've got some average on leaders like Marrying Scrimjaw,

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Speaker 3: Sammy bus Blnazi. They're getting vaccinated publicly to Shaw countrymen,

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Speaker 3: it's safe, it's all right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean to any of our indigenous listeners out there

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Speaker 2: Do we need to just make sure that we you

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Speaker 2: know that they're.

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Speaker 1: Getting out there, that they're getting that vaccine as quickly

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Speaker 1: as they can.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, please get an appointment at the clinic. Talk

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Speaker 3: to your nurse or your GP or your aboriginal health professional.

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Speaker 3: Talk to those people, get as much information as you can,

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Speaker 3: and then put your name down to get vaccinated. When

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Speaker 3: fives are comes to your community, please get vaccinated well.

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Speaker 1: Joe Martin Jarred, the NLCS Acting Chief Executive, always enjoy

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Speaker 1: catching up with you mate.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so very much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Katie, Thank you Joe Martin jard there from

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Speaker 1: the NLC