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Speaker 2: Natasha Files first stop and she joins me on the

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, minister.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Katy, Good morning listeners.

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Speaker 1: Minister. Firstly, how are you going since contracting COVID?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you Katie Fir for asking. Feeling much better,

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Speaker 3: the whole family better and certainly glad that we had

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Speaker 3: really excited to be back at work.

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Speaker 1: You timed it well, obviously, back in time for parliament.

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't want to miss parliament.

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Speaker 4: Wilfe well, and.

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Speaker 2: It seems as though it's going to be a very

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Speaker 2: interesting day. There is a lot on the agenda. I

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Speaker 2: do want to take you, though, firstly to this news

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Speaker 2: which is just emerging this morning, the Anti Independent reporting

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Speaker 2: a social media video surface showing him allegedly snorting a

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Speaker 2: white substance. Minister, have you seen that video and watch

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Speaker 2: your reaction, O Katie.

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Speaker 3: I don't condone criminal behavior of any kind. I haven't

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Speaker 3: seen the video, but I take your word for it,

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Speaker 3: and I don't understand. A person was not employed by

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Speaker 2: I mean, the video has again raised concerns that some

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Speaker 1: Is there an issue here, Katie.

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Speaker 2: Minister, how would you react if someone in your office

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Speaker 3: Okay, it's unacceptable, and as I just said, I don't

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Speaker 3: So these I haven't seen a video, but I'll take

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Speaker 1: Do you know if that person is still the president

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Speaker 3: To the advice I've got is that And as I understand,

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Speaker 2: Okay, so he has resigned as a result of this situation.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, I'm sure that there'll be further detail

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Speaker 2: I want to move along because there is an awful

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Speaker 2: appears to be some good news, Alan Joyce, the CEO

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Speaker 2: recommitting to that Darwin London route for at least an

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Speaker 3: Fantastic to have Quintus CEO in Darwin on the grounds

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Speaker 2: That, and so did the Northern Territory government. Are we

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Speaker 3: expand this. It's a perfect aircraft for the territory, Katie.

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Speaker 2: A press release which has just come out from the opposition,

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Speaker 1: Why are we spending that much?

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Speaker 3: Oh, Katie the steelp have got no credibility when it

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Speaker 2: There's literally a tender document. I've been online because I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and Katie the steelp a clueless. What that is

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Speaker 3: This is for health across NTG. We're using those rat

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Speaker 1: I mean, that is such a phenomenal amount of money.

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Speaker 3: So Katie, what how we got to that figure is

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Speaker 2: The COLP say that it is ten point eight million tests,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Katie, this is something that I've raised with Health

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Speaker 3: and it's just a balance and making.

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Speaker 4: Operational decisions that they believe let's keep the hospital and

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Speaker 4: staff and patients safe from COVID, but at the same

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Speaker 4: time we know how important it is for families to

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Speaker 4: be able to visit, but importantly for patient to have

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Speaker 4: that visitation.

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Speaker 3: So various processes. I've certainly the department to rate with

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Speaker 3: them around the real need to be particularly compassionate. In

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Speaker 3: some situations there's extenuating circumstances that make it very difficult.

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Speaker 1: Well, Minister for Health, we are going to have to

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Speaker 1: leave it there.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate your time this morning obviously going to be

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Speaker 2: a very busy day in Parliament.

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Speaker 1: Just quickly, what's on the agenda for the government.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Katie, we're really proud of our track record of

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Speaker 3: managing COVID and keeping the economy strong. We've got legislation

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Speaker 3: going in so looking forward to the resumption of the

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Speaker 3: parliamentary year.

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Speaker 2: Well, Minister Files, great to have you back on deck

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Speaker 2: following on from that bout of COVID. Let's hope that

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Speaker 2: you know that it is a productive day in Parliament

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Speaker 2: House this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Katie, thank you,