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Speaker 1: Joining me in the studio right now is the Lord

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Speaker 1: Mayor of Darwin convat Scalas.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 3: Colled, Good morning Katy. How are you there? You don't

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Speaker 3: sound very well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a big crook, but I'll solder on. I

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Speaker 2: don't have COVID when I do the same. That's exactly right.

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Speaker 2: And talking too much has always corn. That's how I

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Speaker 2: end done with In.

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Speaker 3: Change with U, Kate, Nothing changing.

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Speaker 2: With you now. God, let's talk about the scooters.

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Speaker 1: I understand that there's a there is going to be

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Speaker 1: an expansion to the scooters.

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Speaker 3: Well, they want to expand to Casarina, Night Clift, per Up,

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Speaker 3: Funny Bay districts, which is really good. The government's working

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Speaker 3: furiously to put new legislation with reguard into scooters because,

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Speaker 3: believe the or not, scooters are not considered a vehicle,

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Speaker 3: so they can't be legally on the road. So this

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Speaker 3: will change the next few months. We have now five

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Speaker 3: hundred scooters and this stuggering number is that in the

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Speaker 3: past last year, the people they use the scooters did

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Speaker 3: one point two million kilometers. Wow, So they must be

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Speaker 3: popular because I don't think I've done any of these

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Speaker 3: kilometers myself, but I see a lot of young people

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Speaker 3: using it and surprising, I've seen a few lawyers coming

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Speaker 3: down Bennett Street going to these heads on a scudder

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Speaker 3: with the road flowing and weeks and everything.

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Speaker 2: Goodness, mate, I know it's it seems to be very

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Speaker 2: popular that they are certainly very popular.

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Speaker 1: I know that you and I had spoken in the

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Speaker 1: past corner about well about I thought there was going

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Speaker 1: to be a report done into whether there should be

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Speaker 1: times of the day where they're not able to be

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Speaker 1: used in the city, you know, when you've got people.

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Speaker 2: The neuron. Yes.

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Speaker 3: However, with the government now coming to the game and

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Speaker 3: changing the legislation, that might be still Actually I will

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Speaker 3: ask for some of these things to happen, because most

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Speaker 3: of the times with accident with scutters is late at

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Speaker 3: night when people had one too many and think they're

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Speaker 3: superhumans and they are not.

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Speaker 1: And so is there a way that you could have

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Speaker 1: you know, there's not really you can't have a breathalyser

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Speaker 1: or anything on there can I.

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Speaker 3: Mean, look at the moment they actually if they're on

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Speaker 3: the road, then you can breathalyze them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't breathalyze.

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Speaker 3: Them, but common sense, and Neuran's quite good because they've

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Speaker 3: done it in other places like the d In Bridge

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Speaker 3: in Brisbane, the Ring Ring fence in an area, especially

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Speaker 3: in the Temin area that you can't use them.

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Speaker 2: After said, well that's what you've spoken to us.

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Speaker 3: Vision is what I want to do here. Now I've

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Speaker 3: got ongoing negotiation with Neurope.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Now, if you see my producer Danielle, she's in

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Speaker 1: a moon boot after she stacked the scooter.

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Speaker 2: Well, the time it was and where it was, it

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Speaker 1: Nine o'clock at night. She tells me it was because

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Speaker 1: she's very hot heels. Yeah, anyway, show me wearing our

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Speaker 1: heels for a while. Can I give you that tip? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: moons no scooter for a while. But look, I know

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Speaker 1: that there are quite a few injuries. There is a

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Speaker 1: situation obviously, even overnight. I understand that the paramedics located

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Speaker 1: someone who crashed into a pole about three o'clock this morning.

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Speaker 3: So cool pole, so he decided to go between them.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately it was only one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a worry in some cases. It's a worry now,

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Speaker 1: but it does look as well. Nonetheless, Neuron's wanting to

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Speaker 1: expand them to other areas, which is Look, we.

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Speaker 3: Can't blame Europeah, we can't blame this goodness is the

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Speaker 3: people who writes to the idea is all right, sorry

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Speaker 3: and I mean if you drink the careful what you do, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You have to be there is no doubt about that,

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Speaker 2: No doubt about that. Kine. A few questions from our

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Speaker 1: I have got one firstly wanting to know a little

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Speaker 1: bit more detail about what work is going on at

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Speaker 1: the water gardens. So it says, good morning, could you

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Speaker 1: please ask the Lord mayor why the footbridge at the

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Speaker 1: back of the water gardens jingly has been closed slash

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Speaker 3: Do regular respection to all our facilities. The recent inspection

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Speaker 3: we did discover there was rush there to create problem

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Speaker 3: so we've fenced it until we did thorough investigation to

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Speaker 3: repair it. At this stage, I can't give you any

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Speaker 1: Okay, so don't know how long that work's going to

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Speaker 3: But however, today we're opening the Water Gardens all inclusive

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Speaker 3: playground officially that was designed to actually to be used

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Speaker 3: by all children, including children with disabilities. And of course

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Speaker 3: the new playgrounds, the new facilities, the new toilets, the

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Speaker 3: whole lot which looks absolutely fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Well, that is good to hear.

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Speaker 1: Corn. Another question from a listener, could you please ask

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Speaker 1: Corn about the works along Bayview Pathway? Where is that

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Speaker 1: project at It appears the polls are too long?

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Speaker 2: Have mistakes been made?

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Speaker 3: I Witch pokes.

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Speaker 2: Bayview Pathway? Is there work happening there?

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Speaker 3: Yes, there'd be work happening there because actually we had

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Speaker 3: quite a few inquiries about it. Can I take it

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Speaker 3: or notice enough count back to you and find out

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Speaker 3: exactly what's happening and why. The concern of the listener

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Speaker 3: is yeah.

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Speaker 1: Right, we'll see what we can find out. Now, Corn,

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Speaker 1: I'm keen to know. Do you have any understanding or

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Speaker 1: do you know so why I know the obviously the

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Speaker 1: main glente had been had been called off this year.

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Speaker 1: There was going to be a smaller event now that

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Speaker 1: has also been postponed by the look of things, due

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Speaker 1: to circumstances beyond control, any idea, what's the guy with

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Speaker 1: the mini glenty.

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Speaker 3: I actually met the president, Nick Ponia's last week of

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Speaker 3: the Great Community, who advised me they had great difficulty

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Speaker 3: sourcing equipment and sourcing supplies, even some of the generators

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Speaker 3: that couldn't get them, toilers that couldn't get them. Some

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Speaker 3: of the food was difficult to get. I mean, this

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Speaker 3: On the way here today, I had another fought from

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Speaker 3: Nick who told me that actually they look into having

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Speaker 3: I'll let him announce it because he has to go

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Speaker 3: to do his process and everything else. But I'm confident

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Speaker 3: that the Glenty will happen later.

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Speaker 1: In the drive sho well, it looks like we're going

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Speaker 1: to have Nick on the show after eleven o'clock this morning,

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Speaker 1: so hopefully we'll have some further detail about that and

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Speaker 1: go is, because I know everybody loves the Glendee. No

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Speaker 1: matter what size the event is, everybody absolutely loves it

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Speaker 1: and certainly wants to be part of it and to

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Speaker 1: go and enjoy all the beautiful food.

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Speaker 3: Now talking about Bayview, yes, you're talking about the sea wall.

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Speaker 3: Then there's a five hundred thousand dollars expenditure we're doing

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Speaker 3: in mattenus work and that will take about eight weeks.

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Speaker 3: We had to supply problem with lights and we have

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Speaker 3: again supply problem. So the Bayview Walk is going to

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Speaker 3: be done within eight weeks.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but there has been a bit of a delay

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Speaker 3: Well, the problem we've got is you order something yep,

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Speaker 3: I'm still arriving. Yeah, and of course the same problem

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Speaker 3: you try to order stuff from Mebay. They promise to

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Speaker 2: Well, let's just shop local. But for some of those

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Speaker 3: Obviously suppliers, they have the same problem because things coming

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Speaker 1: Problem at the moment, particularly when you're talking about measles

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Speaker 2: It makes a huge difference.

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Speaker 3: And one thing I want to tell youse problems not

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Speaker 3: The Crocodile Hotel in Jaburu does not serve dinner anymore.

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Speaker 1: No, the staffing issue is a massive issue.

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Speaker 3: And yes, we were approached last year from the city

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Speaker 3: said to us they want to send students to study

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Speaker 3: And also they said, as Ballet's been hit really hard

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Speaker 3: He must be joking. Of course we wanted. So we're

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Speaker 3: signing now a Eadly city agreement with the city of Tampasa.

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Speaker 3: We'll be heading down there in a two weeks time.

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Speaker 3: We take with us a number of people from Darwin

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Speaker 3: with interest in education and hospitality. They will be paying

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Speaker 3: their own way and we'll be trying to actually talk

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Speaker 3: to them about opportunities.

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Speaker 1: For education, for employement, a delegation heading across to.

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Speaker 3: It's a very small delegation with a very small expenditure,

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Speaker 3: but if we can pull that through, the benefits for.

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Speaker 1: Dow will be announce How soon are you expecting that

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Speaker 1: we could see some of those employees or some of

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Speaker 3: You're taking people who have to expend to them exactly

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Speaker 3: how they can get the visits, how they can actually

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Speaker 3: get employment here, how can they study here? So the

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Speaker 3: moment we give all this information of them, it will

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Speaker 3: be very easy, considering the lack of working hands here

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Speaker 3: to actually with the federal government, and will be lobbying

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Speaker 3: the federal government to accelerate this process so we can

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Speaker 3: get some people as soon as possible. Well, we haven't

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Speaker 3: got any backpackers.

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Speaker 2: No, we don't. This is the issue issue.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard. It's very hard for a lot of

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Speaker 1: businesses at the moment. Combat scarlets. We will leave it there.

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Speaker 1: We'll catch up with you again next week. Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for your time.

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Speaker 2: As always, get better and you might get a call

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Speaker 2: you pay for it. I'm only kidding, No, Thanks God