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Speaker 1: On the line right now is the Mayor of Catherine,

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Speaker 1: Liz Clark. Good morning to you, Liz.

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Speaker 2: Oh, good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Very well, Liz, thanks so much for your time. I

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Speaker 1: would imagine that it's a pretty hectic time in Catherine today,

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Speaker 1: on that first full day of lockdown. What is the

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Speaker 1: feeling in Catherine this morning?

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Speaker 2: I think I think the feeling is I think most

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Speaker 2: like we've all been expecting this to happen at some point,

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Speaker 2: because it was a matter of when it was going

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Speaker 2: to happen, not if. And I think people are, you know,

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Speaker 2: I think they're a bit upset about it this time,

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Speaker 2: you know, because we've just come out of lockdown or lockout,

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Speaker 2: and and now we're in the serious lockdown, which means

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Speaker 2: essential services and not only so of course people won't

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Speaker 2: be they're probably feeling the same as what the Victorians

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Speaker 2: that they had it for much longer than we have.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Liz, we know that the Chief Minister's Office have

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Speaker 1: flagged that there's going to be more positive cases today.

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Speaker 1: We don't know what kind of numbers we're looking at.

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Speaker 1: What are you hearing around town?

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Speaker 2: Well, I heard that these The first person was actually

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Speaker 2: in the hotel for quite a few hours, went across

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Speaker 2: to buy some fisition ships the shop across the road,

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Speaker 2: went back to the hotel, and of course we don't

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Speaker 2: know how many people have been infected there, the original

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Speaker 2: person plus the people that were living in the house

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Speaker 2: of all being we're all flowing to dal On yesterday afternoon,

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Speaker 2: so of course, but we still have to I think

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Speaker 2: they still have to find the original where this person

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Speaker 2: got his you know, where he actually got it from.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Liz, we also know obviously one of those cases

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Speaker 1: has traveled to the remote community of Robinson River. There's

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Speaker 1: no doubt that that is a concern. We know that.

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Speaker 1: You know that there is a lot of very transient

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Speaker 1: you know, the population is very transient right across the

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Speaker 1: Northern territory. But indeed, in Catherine, is that a warry

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Speaker 1: at this point?

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Speaker 2: I think it is a very big worry because you know,

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Speaker 2: once and that was that was the biggest worry everyone had,

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Speaker 2: was that going into our remote communities. Luckily, well not

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Speaker 2: luckily that Robinson River actually have seventy percent of the

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Speaker 2: people there have been vaccinated. So you know, we just

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Speaker 2: have to hope that, you know, it hasn't gone any

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Speaker 2: further borrol Lula because we've had because they had some

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Speaker 2: good rains recently, the road was pretty bad going to

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Speaker 2: borol Lula. So they're just hoping that no one has

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Speaker 2: managed to sort of go from Robinson River to borrol

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Speaker 2: Lula in these last few days. Liz, I know, as.

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Speaker 1: You've said obviously that this person or that there were

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Speaker 1: people or the person who is who is a positive case,

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Speaker 1: was that Kirby's Pub. It's been listed as an exposure

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Speaker 1: site on the coronavirus website. Is it a pretty busy pub, Yes, very.

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Speaker 2: Busy, very busy pub. Yes, it is one of the

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Speaker 2: main ones, of course, so yes, it is a very

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Speaker 2: busy pub. And of course we, like I said, we

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Speaker 2: don't know how many people were in there at the

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Speaker 2: same time that could now be, you know, and this

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Speaker 2: is what they've got to find out.

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Speaker 1: Still, Liz, are you expecting that there's going to be

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Speaker 1: more positive cases in Catherine today?

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Speaker 2: I think so. I can't see how it couldn't, although

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Speaker 2: the person that did originally you know, that was had

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Speaker 2: it was double backed. But you know, we just don't know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you can still you can still pass that

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Speaker 2: on to other people. I have no doubt there'll be

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Speaker 2: more cases.

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Speaker 1: And Liz, how are businesses feeling this morning? I know

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Speaker 1: that it's a tough time then when a lot of

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Speaker 1: those businesses have to shut shop as a result of

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Speaker 1: this type of thing, how are they feeling around the community.

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Speaker 2: I think they're feeling very upset about it all because

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Speaker 2: you know, of course it effects particularly the businesses, non

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Speaker 2: essential businesses. You know, there are lots of revenue as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and like not only that, I think you have to

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Speaker 2: because you have to stay in Yeah, you can't go anywhere,

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Speaker 2: you can't do anything. So I guess it's a good

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Speaker 2: time to catch up on on things at home. But

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Speaker 2: definitely laughed a little while.

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Speaker 1: And from council's perspective, I'm assuming there's anything that isn't

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Speaker 1: essential really has to sort of stop at this point

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Speaker 1: in time.

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Speaker 2: Yes, all our essential things are shut down. There are

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Speaker 2: people that are able to work from home. We are

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Speaker 2: we do have that capability, so yeah, people are able

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Speaker 2: to work from home, but the essential services like the

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Speaker 2: library and the waste management facilities have closed down, you

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Speaker 2: know for the time being.

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Speaker 1: Liz, just finally, are you expecting some big numbers when

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Speaker 1: it comes to you know, when it comes to locals

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Speaker 1: going and getting tested today.

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Speaker 2: I hope so, because they were concerned last week that

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Speaker 2: there were not many testing cases about I just over

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Speaker 2: four hundred people. They were expecting a lot more, particularly

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Speaker 2: as they found when they found COVID in the sewage

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Speaker 2: last week. They are expecting a lot more people to

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Speaker 2: come forward and be tested. But we didn't get the numbers.

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Speaker 2: So hopefully, you know, this will be a wake up

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Speaker 2: call perhaps for people to go and be tested if

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Speaker 2: they have any kind of symptoms, you know, fever or

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Speaker 2: sore throws or anything like that, you know, just in

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Speaker 2: case you should be tested.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good advice, I reckon. Liz. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for your time today and all the best, no doubt

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to you again very soon.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you very much, Katie, have a godame.

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Speaker 1: Thank you you too,