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Speaker 1: Federal changes to the childcare subsidy take effect from Saturday

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Speaker 1: and we'll deliver what's being reported as cheaper childcare for

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Speaker 1: around one point two million families across the country from July.

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Speaker 1: More than five thousand families in Darwen and Palmerston are

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Speaker 1: set to benefit from the change. And joining me on

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Speaker 1: the line to explain it all to us is Labour's

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Speaker 1: Member for Solomon, Luke Goslin. Good morning to you, Luke.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: How are you pretty good now? Luke? Before I get

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Speaker 1: to those childcare changes, obviously, the Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers

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Speaker 1: in town yesterday you all went out to Charles Dalwin

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Speaker 1: University to turn the do a bit of a SOD

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Speaker 1: turning out there, talk us through where things are at

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Speaker 1: with CDU.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a great event out there at CDU,

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Speaker 2: and it's another piece of important education infrastructure, like a

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Speaker 2: three story building. And yeah, we did the ceremonial turning

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Speaker 2: of the SOD but we're putting ten million dollars into

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Speaker 2: that facility and CDU putting even more than that in

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Speaker 2: around sixteen million into that facility. And there is a

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Speaker 2: research element to it, but it's mainly about training our

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Speaker 2: healthcare workers for the care economy, because we've got a

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Speaker 2: big we've got a lack of healthcare workers that are

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Speaker 2: skilled and care economy workers. And by providing simulation facilities

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Speaker 2: and that's what it's all about these days in training

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Speaker 2: people to be nurses or other healthcare workers is put

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Speaker 2: them in a situation. But that is really lifelike mannequins

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Speaker 2: that have a range of responses or like ailments, injuries,

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Speaker 2: and the healthcare workers are taken through their paces. So

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Speaker 2: we saw a bit of that yesterday. But this is

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Speaker 2: going to be a start of the art facility and

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Speaker 2: it'll mean that more territory young people are going to

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Speaker 2: be trained at CDU and go into our health facilities

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Speaker 2: here and then we've got a better chance of keeping

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Speaker 2: them here if they're territorial and not coming in from

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Speaker 2: in the state.

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Speaker 1: Now, tell us in terms of the construction timeline, how

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Speaker 1: soon do you reckon that's going to be up and running.

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Speaker 1: And you know, like you said, it is a really

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Speaker 1: good thing for our young people to be able to

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Speaker 1: study here and grow our own.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, really is. There's some Yeah, they're cracking onto it,

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Speaker 2: but they had the artist's pictures and they're there yesterday

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Speaker 2: of what the finished facility look like, and it's going

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Speaker 2: to be fantastic. Is behind the Asiki building there at CDU.

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Speaker 2: It's a great location and they're going to now that

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Speaker 2: the fundings will been approved through the budget, they're getting

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Speaker 2: into construction pretty quickly. And we're really needing to increase

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Speaker 2: our facilities as well because with the CDU medical program

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Speaker 2: that we're waiting to find out how many Commonwealth funded

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Speaker 2: medical school programs that will get for Child Dalen University,

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Speaker 2: it's really creating the medical program support as well that

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Speaker 2: we'll need for training our own doctors all the way

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Speaker 2: through with cd So that's exciting as well as this

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Speaker 2: facility will contribute to that, so we'll not only have

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Speaker 2: healthcare workers registered nurses, that doctors trained out at CDU.

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Speaker 1: Now. Look, I know that there's been some well I

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Speaker 1: touched on this just a moment ago, some changes to

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Speaker 1: the childcare subsidy taking effect from Saturday. Can you break

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Speaker 1: down the numbers on how much families will actually save

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and for everyone's personal situation, there's a calculator where

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Speaker 2: you put in your income and so forth. Of got

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Speaker 2: a thing in the anteen use today which has got

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Speaker 2: a QR code. You can scan that. But I'm also

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Speaker 2: putting it on my Facebook page, so you can scan

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Speaker 2: that QR code, fill out your own personal family information,

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Speaker 2: and that'll let you know how much extra to go

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Speaker 2: towards early childhood education and childcare costs. This means, but

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Speaker 2: to give you an example, if there's a territory family

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Speaker 2: listening that's on about one hundred and twenty k combined income,

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Speaker 2: that you'll be paying around seventeen one hundred dollars less

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Speaker 2: the childcare subsidy. And for a lower income family that

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Speaker 2: might be on around eighty k, the childcare subsidy that

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Speaker 2: that family will see risers up to ninety percent, So

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Speaker 2: that's more money to that family to go towards childcare costs.

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Speaker 2: it's a really important thing, and let's let's parents get

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Speaker 2: to be good for the kids because the early childhood

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Speaker 2: good for the territory all around. And we've seen over

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Speaker 2: the last ten years the child care fees have increased

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Speaker 2: by around fifty percent, So this is in response to that,

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Speaker 2: helping families a bit more with the costs. And we've

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Speaker 2: also tasked the agriable see to look into increases. Like

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Speaker 2: every year at the start of a new financial year,

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Speaker 2: childcare centers, really childhood education centers, sons put their fees

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Speaker 2: there's no increases that are unreasonable, while the Productivity Commission

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Speaker 2: does a broad based review on the future.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's interesting. It is interesting that you mentioned

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Speaker 1: that look because I have got a message that just

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Speaker 1: came through it and it says, Hi, Kadie, childcare won't

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Speaker 1: be much cheaper. I know of four childcares who've put

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Speaker 1: of the July one changes one Palmerston childcare charging one

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty six dollars a day, another childcare in

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Speaker 1: the rural area one hundred and ten dollars a day.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, you know, and so I guess that is

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Speaker 1: the concern. I think everybody understands that, you know, our

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Speaker 1: childcare workers they deserve every cent that they are paid,

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Speaker 1: if not more. But you know, but it is really

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Speaker 1: it's a tough juggle for people. And you and I

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Speaker 1: both know we've got young kids that are past that

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Catie is huge, and it's understandable appearance, you know,

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Speaker 2: it or not. And that's a balance at all families

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Speaker 2: go through. And I guess I just encourage those people

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Speaker 2: we'll send that through to the age we'll see to

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Speaker 2: have a look at. But I guess the main point

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Speaker 2: is is even without sort of the yearly indexation of

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Speaker 2: I said, So this more childcare subsidy for those families

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, Luke Gosling, I always appreciate your time. Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for having a chat with us this morning.

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Speaker 2: And Katie, thanks for bringing up that Bali flight issue. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I've been working with the Minister for the Defense's offers

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Speaker 2: to make sure that Defense is giving the updates that

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Speaker 2: the Anti government needs, that the Darwin International Airboard needs,

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Speaker 2: and that the carriers need for certainty. So yelling to

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Speaker 1: It's pretty unbelievable, isn't it. I mean we're trying to

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Speaker 1: work out over what period of time now those flights

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Speaker 1: are going to be canceled for. But we really only

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Speaker 1: our listeners had raised it with this yesterday, saying that

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Speaker 1: they weren't able to book flights, And we all understood

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Speaker 1: that there was work happening on the runway, but I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and there has been negotiations going on for quite

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Speaker 2: some time now to get the balance right because there's

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Speaker 2: for another eight hours or so of work. And do

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Speaker 2: and or do we kind of have more availability the

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Speaker 2: longer to do the runway repair work. I understood from

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Speaker 2: or the changes to the programming, I'm happy to again

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Speaker 1: So look from your perspective, that information has now been

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Speaker 2: Going to be. Yeah, that's right, Katie. When I was

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Speaker 2: we will do that.

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Speaker 1: Well, we'll definitely try to follow this up because I reckon.

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Speaker 1: This is going to be a bit of a shock

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Speaker 1: to a lot of people that are hearing this this

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Speaker 1: morning for the first time. You know, we all understood

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Speaker 1: but I don't think anybody was expecting that, you know,

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Speaker 1: you wouldn't see flights to Bali for a month.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we need more flights in and out of Dowla,

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Speaker 2: not less flights. At the same time, we've got to

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Speaker 2: do the work to the runway, so it's a balance.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, if you don't get the answers you need,

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Speaker 2: let me not cat.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, most definitely. Well, Luke, thanks as always for your

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Speaker 1: time this morning. We'll talk to you again very soon.

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Speaker 2: Cheers, but thank you