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Speaker 2: Morning, Katie, and yeah, absolutely right.

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Speaker 3: You've got two weeks of prepole, which is fantastic now

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Speaker 4: So yeah, well this is the thing.

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Speaker 1: I think making it as easy and accessible as possible

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling though about some of the different

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Speaker 4: Have we got enough?

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Speaker 3: So in my electorate of Drysdale in Parmeson, I don't

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Speaker 2: Which we've had always.

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Speaker 4: All of those sorts of Yeah, look, I agree.

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Speaker 3: I want to Every decision I've made, Katie, is in

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Speaker 2: And I know.

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Speaker 4: So what was happening before.

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Speaker 2: As I said, there was plenty happening before.

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Speaker 3: It's just that I've I think you find with me

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Speaker 1: What happens though, if Labor gets re elected but you don't,

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Speaker 1: But I'm not going to go into us. No, we'll

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Speaker 3: So that our animal welfare legislation is being reviewed now

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Speaker 4: A couple of quick ones.

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Speaker 1: Well, last week we also learned charges had been laid

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Speaker 4: Gavin Morris. What was your reaction to that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, total shock and surprise about that. I obviously as

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Speaker 3: Rina is a non government school and there is a process.

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Speaker 3: the Teacher Registration Board. There is a process now that's underway.

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Speaker 2: Is there still.

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Speaker 4: Support being provided to school or will there be some support?

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Speaker 1: Sure?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Northern Territory Government Department of Education would be

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Speaker 3: I would presume, like most schools in my experience in schools,

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Speaker 3: would be acting as principal. I would say, I haven't

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Speaker 3: asked that question, but I do understand that Gavin has

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Speaker 1: Look a listener question somebody asking did Chancey Peig attend

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Speaker 3: So Chancey is the Minister for Arts and he's the

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Speaker 3: when it's related to his portfolio. So he is allowed

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Speaker 2: So he travel to Darwin.

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Speaker 3: He attended the the opening of the Darwin Festival, the

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Speaker 3: He had the Nemurs so the National Indigenous Music Awards,

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Speaker 3: so which portfolio was at So he's also he's a

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Speaker 1: Is that though, just that sort of open up a

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Speaker 2: So yes, you can travel, you have to can even

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Speaker 4: Mean this is through our caretaker.

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Speaker 2: So I'm feeling like.

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Speaker 4: We really after what Michael Waller does.

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Speaker 3: Well that was a specific example and as we know

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Speaker 3: the results of that inquiry. But yes you can as

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Speaker 3: continue to do the work in your portfolios. So Chancey

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Speaker 1: Are there any other ministerial trips planned over the next

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Speaker 2: Not for me.

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Speaker 3: No, I've been very clear around that that I'm you know,

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Speaker 3: unless there was something that I really you know, an

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Speaker 3: that I wouldn't travel.

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Speaker 1: But do you things? So do you would you have done?

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Speaker 1: What the what the Attorney General's done?

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Speaker 3: So here came as the Minister for Indigenous Affairs and

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Speaker 3: yes he can travel to Darwin for that.

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Speaker 1: Well, Chief Minister, we better leave it there. We've got

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Speaker 1: a very busy morning ahead. I know you do as well.

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Speaker 1: We are going to be catching up with you and

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Speaker 1: indeed are the SEALP candidate for Drives later in the

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Speaker 1: week as well. Thank you very much for your time,

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Speaker 1: much appreciated.

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Speaker 2: Thank you