1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the mornings. Well, another big week 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 1: of development as our state in Old Country navigate through 3 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: the coronavirus. This week it was announced that school students 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: in New South Wales would return to face to face 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: classrooms in a staggered fashion from May eleven, one day 6 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,119 Speaker 1: a week and then I don't know what happens a 7 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 1: little bit further down the track. It's a difficult and 8 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 1: confusing time for parents. So the New South Wales Premier 9 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: gladys Bury Jicklian joins us this morning. Good morning Premier, 10 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: Good morning guys. 11 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 2: How are you We're great? How are you going? I'm going, okay, going, okay. 12 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: Tell you what though, I bet you thought at the 13 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: end of the bushfires that you could take your foot 14 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: off the accelerator a bit, But here we are in 15 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: coronavirus world. Tell us how the school system is going 16 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 1: to work from May eleven. 17 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 2: Sure, well, we're convinced that it's the right time to 18 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 2: take schools back and by the end of the term 19 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 2: we want to see kids back full time. But we 20 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 2: also know from around the world, when you bring the 21 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 2: kids back, you have to do it properly. You have 22 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 2: to make sure you've got extra cleaning. You have to 23 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 2: make sure the peach is particular in the staff rooms, 24 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 2: have social distancing in place. You have to make sure 25 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,680 Speaker 2: drop offs and pickups are staggered, think about public transport. 26 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 2: So we don't want to do what other countries have 27 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 2: done when they open schools and they shut them, and 28 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 2: they open them and they shut them. We want our 29 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,399 Speaker 2: schools to go back in a stage way, starting off 30 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 2: with a day a week, then too, and then eventually 31 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:19,759 Speaker 2: full time by the end of the term. To make 32 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:21,400 Speaker 2: sure we do it properly and to make sure the 33 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 2: children and the parents and families and teachers for that matter, 34 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,399 Speaker 2: don't have further disruptions down the track, because as we know, 35 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 2: we have to live with this virus until there's a 36 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 2: cure or a vaccine, which means social distancing is part 37 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 2: of our lives. So we're making sure all the schools 38 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,479 Speaker 2: now have enough hand sanitizers for at least a year, 39 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 2: enough soap. Each school also has and I'm not suggesting 40 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 2: every school should or will use this, but every school 41 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 2: also have the ability to do temperature checks. And you 42 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 2: probably only do that if there's a breakout in a 43 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 2: particular suburb and you want to make sure the kids 44 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 2: and the teachers don't have symptoms. So we're making sure 45 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 2: we've got all we use this time to make sure 46 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 2: we're really well prepared so when the kids go back, 47 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 2: not only is everybody really safe, but also feel safe 48 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 2: to make sure that there's everything around us to protect 49 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 2: the school communities. And we're absolutely convinced this is the 50 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 2: right time, So parents and students and teachers will continue 51 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 2: to online learn for the first two weeks of the 52 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 2: term and then progressively move back. And what is really 53 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 2: great about this Jones in Amanda is that of a 54 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 2: Catholic system and the independent school system support what the 55 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 2: government's doing. So all the schools will be going back 56 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 2: in one form or another, and we've actually sent out 57 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 2: guidelines to all the schools as to how this might work. 58 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 2: So for for example, some schools have house colors where 59 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 2: all the siblings and the one family are obviously in 60 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 2: the same house color. See might have read on Monday 61 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 2: and yellow on Tuesday, or else it's not alphabetically, which 62 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 2: means all the siblings are captured, so all the brothers 63 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 2: and sisters go to school on the same day, so 64 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 2: at least parents can also work out their work life 65 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 2: balance as well, and provide certainty for teachers. And as 66 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 2: I say to people principles and teachers and most organized 67 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 2: people on the planet, I'm convinced that by working together 68 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 2: we can get through this. And we believe this staged 69 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 2: approach is the best way to do, just to get 70 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,960 Speaker 2: everybody used to the new arrangements, what the pickup and 71 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 2: drop offs might be like, to assess how many kids 72 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 2: are using public transport and what we need to do there. 73 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 2: So there's a lot to think about, but that's why 74 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 2: we're doing it in this way, because we don't want 75 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 2: to see further distructions for the next twelve months or 76 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 2: what kids to stay at school when they're at school. 77 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 2: And we also appreciate that there will be from time 78 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 2: to time cases in a school or another, which we've 79 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,239 Speaker 2: seen at the beginning of term one, and we now 80 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 2: have a great system in place where you shut down 81 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 2: the school for a day or two, make sure everything's claim, 82 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,239 Speaker 2: protect the kids that have been in contact or the 83 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 2: teachers that have been in contact with the person who 84 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 2: had it, and then everybody goes back. And that system 85 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 2: did work in term one, and of course it will 86 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 2: work again in term two, Can. 87 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: I ask you a question, though, what happens if the 88 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: virus we don't get a vaccine for a couple of years, 89 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: and what happens if we don't find ourselves with natural immunity. 90 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: Have you been working on that scenario? What if we 91 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: have to learn to live with coronavirus? 92 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 2: Well, to be honest, maybe we essentially have to do 93 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 2: that now already, because we know that a vaccine, even 94 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 2: if they discover a vaccine tomorrow, it would take some 95 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 2: time to get it up and running and then available 96 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 2: to everybody around the world. So you know, without being 97 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 2: I'm always an optimist, but I'm always also a realist, 98 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 2: and we have to assume that we have to live 99 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 2: with the virus for at least a year, and that's five. 100 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 2: Whenever we make a decision about sending schools back or 101 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 2: lifting restrictions, we have to think about how can this 102 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 2: be sustainable? So we give everybody certainty. So that's why 103 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 2: we didn't just say schools off and straight away we've said, well, 104 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 2: what do we need to do to make sure that 105 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 2: we're well prepared so that once kids do go back, 106 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 2: once teachers are back in the classroom, and I would 107 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:41,840 Speaker 2: never ask a teacher to do something I wouldn't be 108 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 2: prepared to do myself. If I didn't feel it was 109 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 2: a safe thing to do, I wouldn't do it. Some 110 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 2: of my best friends are teachers. I would never ever 111 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 2: suggest to anybody you should do something that I wasn't 112 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 2: prepared to do myself. And that's why we're making sure 113 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 2: we're buying, we're using the time where the restrictions are on, 114 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,359 Speaker 2: not just to obviously get our health system prepared, so 115 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,719 Speaker 2: we're doubling all be intensive care beds and they're getting 116 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 2: the ventilators, but also making sure that we make all 117 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:08,720 Speaker 2: of the institutions like schools with environments, and it's not 118 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,479 Speaker 2: just the school itself, because we know the health experts 119 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 2: tell us that children in the main, if they do 120 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 2: get it, have very mild systems and they don't spread 121 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,919 Speaker 2: it unlike other diseases which they spread very rapidly, as 122 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,919 Speaker 2: all the parents would know. But the biggest risk is 123 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 2: teachers perhaps spreading it to each other, not being selts, 124 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 2: but to each other. And that's why we know whether 125 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 2: what the risk factors are, and that's why we're having 126 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,359 Speaker 2: a staged approach to make sure that everybody is safe 127 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 2: and feel safe. And from today we're also announcing that 128 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 2: anybody can come forward and get tested down yourself. Well, 129 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 2: if you've got even the mildest symptom and you think 130 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 2: you might have it, We're encouraged and we want to 131 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 2: see eight thousand and more people get tested every day 132 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 2: because the more people that get tested, the less likelihood 133 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 2: the virus will spread. Because every time you think about 134 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 2: lifting a rescription, it does mean more people in contact 135 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 2: with each other, and it does mean more cases, and 136 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 2: it does mean more people meeting to go to hospital. 137 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:02,039 Speaker 2: That's the reality yours, superwoman, that's what you are, plas. 138 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 2: We'll look at and I'm looking at the hashtag me 139 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 2: at twenty thing do you play? I wasn't asked you, 140 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,919 Speaker 2: but the twenty something in my office is that I relented, 141 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 2: I got better ways moments. 142 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: If you haven't seen it, it's a fabulous photo of you, guys, 143 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: a twenty one dressed as superwoman, and you are a superwoman. 144 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 2: Well, thank you for letting me speak you guys. Take 145 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:25,840 Speaker 2: care and thank you for keeping us all happy enough 146 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 2: listed during this difficult time. It's really appreciate it. 147 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, Take. 148 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,479 Speaker 2: Care, bye bye. Join the and Amanda in the morning. 149 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 2: At one