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Speaker 1: Now, there is a lot happening around the place today.

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Speaker 1: But if you were listening to the show yesterday, you'd

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Speaker 1: have heard Tom from Darwin River. Now, he got in

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Speaker 1: contact with us because he and his neighbors had felt

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Speaker 1: forgotten in the emergency response to this incredible weather event. Now,

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Speaker 1: after raising the issue in the media, it pushed the

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Speaker 1: government to bring forward. Well, they've said that they're bringing

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Speaker 1: forward these disaster relief payments for those residents impacted at

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Speaker 1: Darwin River who've lost everything. Now Tom joins me on

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Speaker 1: the line again. Get a Tom. Yeah, good mate. How

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Speaker 1: are you guys going this morning?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not bad, not bad. We're just sort of surveying

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Speaker 2: the carnage now, so trying to work out where we go,

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Speaker 2: where we start.

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Speaker 1: How is it looking out there, like has the water subsided?

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Speaker 3: And are you able to get into your house?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, the water is actually receded quite quickly. Actually,

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Speaker 2: it's quite surprising. Yeah, but we're just yeah, we can

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Speaker 2: actually get into the house now. So yeah, we're we

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Speaker 2: are there.

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Speaker 3: Mate.

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Speaker 1: Tell me, the Chief Minister's office had contacted us asking

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Speaker 1: to get in contact with you.

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Speaker 2: Did someone end up calling Yeah, the Chief Minister actually

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Speaker 2: ranging me late afternoon. Yeah, and reached out lor I

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Speaker 2: was yeah, quite quite pleased with it, actually, yeah, yeah much, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: thanks thanks for what she did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pleased to hear that, mate. So what's the

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Speaker 1: you know, what what did she say? I don't expect

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Speaker 1: you to reveal, you know, private details, but what did

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Speaker 1: she say in terms of you know, what's going to

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Speaker 1: happen for the people of Darwin River, Because first and foremost,

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Speaker 1: I think that's been well, my concern and I know yours,

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Speaker 1: everybody's really after we spoke to you yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think initially, I don't know, it's sort

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Speaker 2: of hard to say. I don't think she's actually been informed.

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Speaker 2: I think her staff, like other people under her, actually

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Speaker 2: just you know, she was asking. I mean, the first

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Speaker 2: thing she asked was about air triple zero call for

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Speaker 2: our neighbors that we made. And I've since been told

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Speaker 2: that apparently the pairers to be a claiming that there

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Speaker 2: were no triple zero calls.

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Speaker 3: When there absolutely were.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was you know, so shaft about that, you know,

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Speaker 2: like how affected we are, what we've lost, the damage,

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Speaker 2: I sort of started to explain to her the issues

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Speaker 2: the penny dropped and she's gone, oh, wow, you know

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Speaker 2: I understand now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's I mean, like you guys must have

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Speaker 1: felt really let down to be blunt about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean I think, I mean the wheels

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Speaker 2: community itself. They're they're they're calling for donations to try

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Speaker 2: and to help people that have lost eviting and to

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Speaker 2: back to ground zero is hard to speak, so lot

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Speaker 2: we our house is pretty well barged, like roofs fall

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Speaker 2: we can't do anything with it until we can get

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Speaker 2: an insurance assessor. We need we need a building assessor

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Speaker 2: to come out and go, yes, it's okay, it's safe

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Speaker 2: to turn the power on because power and water basic.

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Speaker 2: They went up the road yesterday and was taking the

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Speaker 2: fugures at everyone's power poles to try and make the

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Speaker 2: turn the power back on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, mate, I understand what you're going through. My house

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Speaker 3: And it can be a bit of a nightmare.

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Speaker 1: Then trying to deal with the insurance companies to get

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Speaker 1: So like, where are you at with that? I mean,

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Speaker 1: is there anything that any of us can do to

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Speaker 2: Well, we're still trying to get a head around it, basically,

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Speaker 2: is it's going to then need to see you at

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Speaker 2: a possible insurance crime if we can get.

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Speaker 3: Really, really good question.

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Speaker 1: So you've obviously been in contact and I'm assuming all

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Speaker 1: Are they coming back to you?

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Speaker 2: I think everyone's still still trying to ascertain what they

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Speaker 2: can actually access. It will be in total to Yeah,

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Speaker 2: insurance companies, everyone knows what they're like. It's there's a

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Speaker 2: difference in terminology between storm beads and blood damage, and

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Speaker 2: it's just the loopholes you've got to go through.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough. It is bloody tough. Well can you.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't expect you to.

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Speaker 4: Come on the show every day, Tom, but mate, we

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Speaker 4: want to stay in contact with you to find out

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Speaker 4: how things are tracking and to sort of, you know,

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Speaker 4: once any fundraising efforts or anything do get underway, to

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Speaker 4: try and help people as well out there.

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Speaker 1: But Tom, the other thing I really wanted to find

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Speaker 1: the elderly couple, and.

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Speaker 3: How are they?

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Speaker 2: Oh, we did, Yeah, we got into their place yesterday,

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Speaker 2: the high spirits. They were safe from seeing.

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Speaker 3: Care, thank goodness. And did they stick it out?

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Speaker 1: Did they just stay there at the house and they

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Speaker 1: were all right pretty much.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they just found the whighest part of the house

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Speaker 2: they could get into. And yeah, I think they're more

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Speaker 2: to camp on the kitchen table.

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Speaker 3: Of bloody hell. That is territory tough.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what a pair of legends. Yeah no, yeah, absolutely, yeah.

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Speaker 2: But you know, even they said, you know, like we've

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Speaker 2: never seen the river do that They've been there for

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Speaker 2: forty fifty years or something and they've never ever seen it. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that were they were still smiling and in high spirits.

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Speaker 2: I was pretty glad.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad to hear that, I really am. Have

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Speaker 1: you had much more info around how to access some

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Speaker 2: No, No, I've been hearing snippets of information about it.

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Speaker 2: But but yeah, sort of the least of their warriors

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Speaker 2: at the moment. I mean, it's good. It's a nice

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Speaker 2: security blanket to know that it's there, but we need

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Speaker 2: to start on the building first, the house. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 2: any trades out there that you know, electricians or builders

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Speaker 2: that have got the qualifications and they're able to assist

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Speaker 2: in any way, just to try and speed it up

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Speaker 2: for us.

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Speaker 1: Very good points. So what you're after at the moment,

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Speaker 1: I would imagine that there's actually a few of you

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Speaker 1: who need you need an electrician to come out and

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Speaker 1: inspect your properties for that certificate of compliance.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, they're pretty well well, I'd say, yeah, a

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Speaker 2: lot of people a pretty well everyone that's been flooded,

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Speaker 2: if the water's got anywhere through any electrical appliances or powerboards,

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Speaker 2: like are your pawerpoints yep.

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Speaker 1: So look by the sounds of it, if there's a

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Speaker 1: sparky out there listening who wants to come out, there

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Speaker 1: might be a few houses out there who.

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Speaker 3: Need a bit of a hand.

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Speaker 2: I'd say there's a lot yees in between you. I

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Speaker 2: mean not just Darn River, but Berry Springs and other

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, look, if there is any electricians out there

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Speaker 1: listening this morning, you know who want to get out

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Speaker 1: there or who are in a position to be able

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Speaker 1: to help. If you get in contact with us here

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Speaker 1: at the station. We'll certainly try and get you in

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Speaker 1: contact with Tom and the other crew out there at

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Speaker 1: Darwin River to see what we can do. Hopefully that

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Speaker 1: helps in some way Tom, I guess we'll wait and see.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, like, you know, as long as we can.

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Speaker 2: We can get a start, when we can get into

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Speaker 2: the houses and start cleaning up, you know, help, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: start moving forward from me.

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Speaker 3: Well, mate, I.

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Speaker 1: Really appreciate you chatting with us again today. We'll stay

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Speaker 1: in contact with each other. Let us know how things

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Speaker 1: a shout out about anything.

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Speaker 3: Let us know.

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Speaker 2: No, thanks and much appreciate today. Thanks for helping us

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Speaker 2: to get the message out there. You know, really appreciate.

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Speaker 3: It, mate, any time.

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Speaker 1: And look, you know, you guys are our eyes and ears,

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Speaker 1: but you're also you know, like we want to make

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Speaker 1: sure that we can try and help our fellow territory

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Speaker 1: and so in any way we can please you.

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Speaker 3: Let us know if there's something that you need a

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Speaker 3: hand with.

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Speaker 2: No, that's awesome, Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Thanks mate. We'll talk again soon