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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Well, another week, another scary news in coronavirus, well and

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Speaker 2: sad news, a whole out of school events, school sport,

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Speaker 2: end of school formals all being called off. We thought

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Speaker 2: we'd better go to the woman at the heart of

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Speaker 2: all this, our Premier, Gladysbury Jigs then welcome Premier, Thank.

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Speaker 1: You, Amanda, how dandy.

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Speaker 2: Hello gladys It seems Premier that a lot of events

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Speaker 2: at the end of the year are being called off.

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Speaker 2: I've always thought, oh, well, maybe things might get better.

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Speaker 2: But do we just assume we're just going to write

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Speaker 2: this year off?

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Speaker 1: No, a madam. If I could just clarify what we

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Speaker 1: want the year eleven and especially twelve children or students

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Speaker 1: I should say young adults to get through is THEHSC

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Speaker 1: So we don't want to have to close down a

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Speaker 1: school because someone's got a virus or disrupt an exam.

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Speaker 1: So we're saying we're still open to having all those

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Speaker 1: events term four, but for term three, for the next

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Speaker 1: six weeks, let's just get through the HSD and then

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Speaker 1: we can see how we can have those events. And

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Speaker 1: I anticipate health will give good advice on this is

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Speaker 1: how you can have a formal safety or this is

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Speaker 1: how you can have a graduation Germany safely. Always saying

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Speaker 1: is let's not risk disrupting and causing extra stress for

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Speaker 1: those year twelve kids who are already doing it tough.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's bad enough doing the HSD in a

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Speaker 1: normal yet I'll learn it in a COVID year. So

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Speaker 1: the health advice was really just based around the next

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Speaker 1: six weeks, saying let's just let the children get through

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Speaker 1: the exams or the young adults get through the exams,

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Speaker 1: because as you know, schools have been doing incredibly well.

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Speaker 1: If there has been a virus, the schools shutdown, done

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Speaker 1: a deep clean, gone back the next day. But obviously

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Speaker 1: all the close contacts of the student have to self isolate,

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Speaker 1: and if you're doing your HSD, we don't want that

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Speaker 1: weeks that would do exam. So I guess it's a

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Speaker 1: precaution to make sure your twelve kids have their best

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Speaker 1: chance of having an undisrupted, wealth less disrupted HSD experience.

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Speaker 2: But we may still find that we can have events at.

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Speaker 1: The end of the year. Absolutely, absolutely, it's more a

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Speaker 1: post moments than anything. Always saying is let's make the

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Speaker 1: cronage supporting the students through the HSC And obviously if

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Speaker 1: your school is shut down or you're a close contact

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Speaker 1: of someone, it's a bit stressful. We don't want children

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Speaker 1: that on top of them getting through that.

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Speaker 3: See, well, that's a good clarification because the media reports

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Speaker 3: how you believe that they're all being canceled.

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Speaker 1: We've just said this is just what term three looks like.

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Speaker 1: Term four, Term four could be a whole different story

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Speaker 1: because we are doing well and I'm hoping that as

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Speaker 1: time goes on, we'll be able to do more of

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Speaker 3: What do you know about this American strain of the

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Speaker 3: coronavirus gladys Well, what we know is out.

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Speaker 1: Again. Thank you to our health detectives who were able

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Speaker 1: to work out because a particular person this When the

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Speaker 1: it was unusual that he had the same strain that

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Speaker 1: when there were a particular passengers there and that's how

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Speaker 1: he got it. But what we don't know is how

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Speaker 1: he actually got it because he's absolutely done the right thing.

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Speaker 1: Police had gone through all the cameras and at this

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Speaker 1: and what's concerning is we don't know what the sources.

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Speaker 1: infection could be. The good news is it was identified,

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Speaker 1: the close contactively identified. But it also shows all the

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Speaker 1: detective work our health experts are doing every Dayay amazing

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Speaker 1: because every other person who's got the virus in his

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Speaker 1: the Victorian strain, so we knew that. Again, I don't

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Speaker 1: want to labor the point because the poor person, I

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Speaker 1: their colleagues. They all went for a drink at the

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Speaker 1: It's that same strain that's essentially circulating in New South Wells.

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Speaker 1: And because this was different, because this person entered with

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Speaker 1: of detective works. That worked about in about thirty hours.

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Speaker 2: It's a shame though, that that person then weren't to

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Speaker 2: work at other places as well. We learned nothing from Victoria, unfortunately.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing that The other concerning thing is though

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Speaker 1: sometimes you don't get symptoms until day toursoring right, so

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Speaker 1: he may very well not have had symptoms. I don't

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Speaker 1: know the circumstances, but the reports I received was that

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Speaker 1: maybe got his groceries or interacted with other people. So

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Speaker 1: it's you know, whether you're working or interacting with anybody,

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Speaker 1: all of us have to be aware that when you

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Speaker 1: leave the house, no matter what you're doing, you could

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Speaker 1: have the virus or somebody you come in contact with

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Speaker 1: has the virus. That's why it's really important to social distance,

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Speaker 1: hand sanitize, stay home and get tested if you're not

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Speaker 1: feeling well. And obviously if you're having public transport or

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Speaker 1: buying your groceries or in a supermarket or a shopping center,

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Speaker 1: you should be wearing a mask.

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Speaker 3: What about the bus drivers that are planning a strike

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Speaker 3: if masks aren't mandatory on public transport? This seems to

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Speaker 3: be like a simple fix. Can't we just have a

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Speaker 1: Well, I think it's a bit curious because some bus

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Speaker 1: or we provide obviously masks to all the bus drivers,

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Speaker 1: not all of them are choosing to wear one. And

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Speaker 1: with customers, we're seeing more patrons, we're seeing more people

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Speaker 1: take up the mask, and we're really pleased with how

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Speaker 1: it's going. So Jones and Amanda, what's I think we've

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Speaker 1: done well in New South Wales is follow the health

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Speaker 1: So you know, that's the health advice we follow, and

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Speaker 1: we've told people where we want them to wear masks

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Speaker 1: and most people are doing the right thing, and that's

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Speaker 1: how we need to present at this stage of the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: Remember we're still touch wood, you know, having single digit

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Speaker 1: the virus is doing in your sathwals. And if you

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Speaker 1: go too hard it means you don't always bring the

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Speaker 1: the virus spreading. It's the fine balance every day, the

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Speaker 3: So can we stop where the bus drivers strike? Stop

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Speaker 3: if there were masks?

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Speaker 1: Well, I kind of feel that's not the real reason.

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Speaker 3: They're striking, Okay, so what's what's the why are they

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Speaker 3: because it seems to me you see the news of

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Speaker 1: Because that particularly there's three areas left where the governments

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Speaker 1: So I suspect they could have something to do with that.

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Speaker 1: But with the mask, please know that every bus driver

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Speaker 1: is given a mask, encouraged to wear one. Not all

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Speaker 1: of them choose to wear one. I've noticed because I

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Speaker 1: with the customers, we're encouraging everyone. If I caught a

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Speaker 1: I did, I would definitely wear a mask. I've been,

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Speaker 1: I'll see where I've been wearing a mask. If I've gone,

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Speaker 1: I've wore my mask to the shopping center, to the supermarket.

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Speaker 1: They're the two places that I've worn it. And if

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Speaker 1: I was to catch public changep I would one hundred

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Speaker 1: before COVID, so I was one hundred percent. One hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: If you're catching a bus or a train, you should

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Speaker 1: be wearing a mask. And they're pretty accessible in terms

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Speaker 1: of people who might think they can't afford it. I

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Speaker 1: bought myself and my parents are stack of them from

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Speaker 1: the local chemist and but dispose the ones are about

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Speaker 1: a dollar apiece, around about that much. But obviously if

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Speaker 1: you get you can get cloth one, you can make them,

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Speaker 1: you can buy the more heavy duty ones. So depending

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Speaker 1: on your circumstances, it's a very worthwhile investment. And I

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Speaker 1: will always have fun in my handbag because if any

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Speaker 1: and someone's let us down, and it's always best to

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Speaker 3: Do you just put that mask on? I will one

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Speaker 3: into the bottle shop the other day and that it

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Speaker 3: felt kind of strange because like usually when you wear

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Speaker 3: a mask into a bottle shop you're doing something else.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, exactly, you're yeah. I know.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's all try and get on top of it,

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Speaker 2: because I want to see my family and Queensland at

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Speaker 2: the end of the year. I'd love that border.

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Speaker 1: And we're and we're doing and we're doing really well,

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Speaker 1: so hopefully the Queen's I mean, Victoria is a different case.

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Speaker 1: We don't lose. That's why I doesn't know any Victorian.

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Speaker 1: And I rang down Andrews in the PM, and three

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Speaker 1: same page. And I just hope other premiers kind of

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Speaker 1: acknowledge that at the end of the day, it's to

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Speaker 1: our citizens and yes there's always a risk. Yes we

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Speaker 1: have to live with the virus, but let's assess the

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Speaker 3: So thank you

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Speaker 1: Day, thank you joined the end Amanda in good Morning