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Speaker 1: If you missed that interview with Michael McCormack, the Deputy

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister, earlier this morning, take a listen and.

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Speaker 2: There will be there will be.

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Speaker 3: Here's the assurance two seats for the Northern territory going forward.

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Speaker 1: So you are guaranteeing that we will have those two

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Speaker 1: House of Reps seats.

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Speaker 4: We will maintain those.

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Speaker 3: Underline it and put a couple of exclamation marks after

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Speaker 3: it if you.

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Speaker 1: Like, excellent, I will be doing that well. Joining me

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Speaker 1: on the line right now is Luke Gosling, the Member

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Speaker 1: for Solomon, the Federal Member for Solomon whose seat would

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Speaker 1: be impacted if we don't maintain these two seats.

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Speaker 4: Good morning to you, Luke, Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 2: Luke.

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Speaker 1: We did catch up with the Deputy Prime Minister earlier

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Speaker 1: this morning and as we just replayed, he said that

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Speaker 1: he will guarantee that we keep those two seats.

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Speaker 4: How does that make you feel?

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Speaker 2: Well? I think it's hung over, dude, but it's obviously welcome, Katie.

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Speaker 2: I spoke with him last night. I've also been speaking

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Speaker 2: with Barnaby Joyce, who believes strongly that regional Australian should

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Speaker 2: be properly represented, fairly represented and I've just given a

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Speaker 2: speech that I've put up on my Facebook later in

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Speaker 2: the Parliament because it's really evident down here, Katie, that

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Speaker 2: it's so Sydney centric in particular, and the last three

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Speaker 2: Prime Ministers have been from there, that there's not a

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Speaker 2: deep understanding or and it doesn't seem to be too

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Speaker 2: much care about what's happening in regional rural areas of Australia.

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Speaker 2: So I really welcomed the Deputy Prime Minister, as you know,

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Speaker 2: has basically listened to the voices of Territorians that we're

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Speaker 2: not taking classes and as we as a fair representation,

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Speaker 2: and that's obviously welcome news. I've just hope we can

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Speaker 2: trust that they will support the legislation when it comes

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Speaker 2: to the Parliament. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I couldn't agree with you more.

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Speaker 1: And look, you and I have spoken about this on

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Speaker 1: so many occasions, even earlier this week, we've discussed the

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Speaker 1: importance of maintaining these two seats and you very rightly

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Speaker 1: pointed out, you know, it hasn't always been a labor

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Speaker 1: the seat of Solomon as well. It's just important that

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Speaker 1: Territorians are represented, Yeah, who.

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Speaker 2: Represent who represents those seats as up the territories. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: But for this Parliament and for this government at this

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister and not to prioritize this issue has really

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Speaker 2: been disappointing, I've got to say. And look, we obviously

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Speaker 2: hoped for more in terms of infrastructure funding for the

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Speaker 2: Northern Territory. I've just got out of the chain for

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Speaker 2: talking about the amount of social housing we need in

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Speaker 2: the Northern territories to be great for jobs and great

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Speaker 2: to put a roof over the territorian's head. Now, these

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Speaker 2: issues are things that we expect the federal government to

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Speaker 2: care about it and I'm just glad that we've been

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Speaker 2: able to pressure and I again I think Barnaby Joyce,

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Speaker 2: we've been able to pressure the Leader of the Nationals

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Speaker 2: to say to the Prime Minister, look, I really need

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Speaker 2: to do this. I need to back the Northern Territory here.

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Speaker 2: So we welcome it, but what we want to see

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Speaker 2: is a clearer I would want to see the Prime

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Speaker 2: Minister visit Darwin. We want him to be announcing actual funds,

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Speaker 2: get out there, get the greaters going on the roads.

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Speaker 2: Because all we've seemed to hear lately, Paty is a

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Speaker 2: lot of announcements we've not much followed through. And when

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Speaker 2: it comes to territorians are still stranded overseas, we're fighting

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Speaker 2: for them down here in Canberra because they deserve to

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Speaker 2: get home for Christmas. So there's plenty on down here, Kady,

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Speaker 2: and this whole thing has been a massive distraction. It

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Speaker 2: should never have come to this. When Ron Howard was

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Speaker 2: and made sure that the territory maintained two seats. Prime

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Speaker 2: Minister still hasn't said a word about this issue. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Luckily we have been able to put pressure on the

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Speaker 2: Nationals to make this commitment today and I welcome it. Looke.

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Speaker 1: Just on that situation with the Aussies that are still

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Speaker 4: Has there been much of an update?

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately there hasn't given another speech and I'm going to

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Speaker 2: directly calling on the Prime Minister to work and we

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Speaker 2: but to work with the Anti government, to work with Darwin.

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Speaker 2: Because quarantine is a federal responsibility. He can get flights,

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Speaker 2: stranded overseas and won't get home for Christmas. The territory

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Speaker 2: can play a role. There's already flight stopping here in

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Speaker 2: but there's sights stopping in Darwin at the moment to

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Speaker 2: And use other places of quarantine other than how it springs.

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Speaker 2: So we can do that if we've got some support

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Speaker 2: for the federal government, and it is an issue for

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Speaker 2: the federal government quarantine, So they should stop passing the buck.

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Speaker 2: They've just announced the one trillion dollar budget and they

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Speaker 2: still can't manage to allow out some funds in there

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Speaker 2: which I think shameful. But we've got to keep working

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Speaker 2: with them, Cadie, and that's what we're going down here

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: Look, obviously the Opposition will be delivering their budget reply tonight.

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Speaker 1: Now you did touch on the GST, and this is

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Speaker 1: something I'd raised yesterday with Matthias Corman, the Federal Finance Minister.

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Speaker 1: He reckons that we're not losing in GST.

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Speaker 4: Take a listen.

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Speaker 3: Let me be very explicit. The Northern Territory in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty one is expected to receive two point seven billion

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Speaker 3: dollars in GST payments and that is an increase, an

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Speaker 1: The confusion around this GST because I think for a

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Speaker 1: You know why the federal government and you know, the

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Speaker 2: It has been to do with what was expected or

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Speaker 2: So our main argument here to the federal government is,

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Speaker 2: we've got less money coming in through the GST, and

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Speaker 2: we understand that through COVID there's been less commercial activity,

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Speaker 2: there's been less GST taken. It was less than projected,

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Speaker 2: but there's just been any no sign at all from

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Speaker 2: with the financial situation we find ourselves in. If we're

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Speaker 1: What can we expect tonight when Anthony Albanesi delivers that

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Speaker 1: budget reply and will territory and be satisfied.

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Speaker 2: Well, obviously, Katie, I think the Prime Minister will go

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Speaker 2: to an election early, so just say the elections about

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Speaker 2: a year away. Some of our policy announcements will obviously

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Speaker 2: fact that Labor has a plan for things like social housing,

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Speaker 2: like oild care. There was nothing in this budget from

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Speaker 2: Elbow will be addressing them tonight. I think that what

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Speaker 2: Territorians will see in Albow is someone that actually cares

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Speaker 2: about working Australians. And obviously in the lead up to

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Speaker 2: the election there'll be more policy announcements. But it's just

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Speaker 2: what we really welcome is the fact that the Nationals

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Speaker 2: have said to the Prime Minister this is something that

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Speaker 2: we need to do. We welcome that in our bipartisan way,

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Speaker 2: but we just want to see less announcements without follow through.

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Speaker 2: So with our federal government announces something, we want to

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Speaker 2: see the action on the ground.

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Speaker 1: Luke, we are going to have to leave it there.

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Speaker 1: Always good to catch up with you. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for taking the time to speak with us this morning

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Speaker 1: from Canberra.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Katie, thank you.

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Speaker 1: That is Luke Gosling there, Labour's member for Solomon. You

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Speaker 1: are listening to Mix one O four point nine