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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Well, coalition's been in power for twelve years in New

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Speaker 2: South Wales and in that time we've had big road

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Speaker 2: lines up and running. We've also had a pandemic with

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Speaker 2: stress on our community and businesses, lots of industrial actions,

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Speaker 2: school infrastructure promise. It hasn't happened yet. If they win

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Speaker 2: the election, their plans and to support us through a

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Speaker 2: potential recession with cost of living becoming unbearable as we know, cashless,

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Speaker 2: Poky's universal, free kindy and hopefully trains it don't break down,

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Speaker 2: Premier Dominic, perite Hallai.

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Speaker 3: Here, good morning, weeks to come in.

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Speaker 1: After that train debark, I was.

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Speaker 2: So sick of the word unprecedented, but that's what was happening.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't an unprecedented glitch.

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Speaker 3: We've never seen anything like it, and apparently it was

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Speaker 3: a digital software issues that just went down. And as

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Speaker 3: I said yesterday, I'm really sorry to families who were

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Speaker 3: inconvenienced the other day by that and people couldn't get

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Speaker 3: home and couldn't get to work. But credit to the

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Speaker 3: transport team, they fixed it an hour and fifteen minutes

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Speaker 3: and got it back up and running. But I'm assured

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Speaker 3: it won't ever happen again. It was just a freak event.

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Speaker 1: Did you I've read a story. They're nineteen thirty six thereabouts.

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Speaker 1: Someone said in the government, by nineteen sixty eight there

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Speaker 1: our rail network is going to need a major overhaul,

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Speaker 1: and no one successive governments, no one did anything about it.

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Speaker 1: So that was nineteen sixty eight, so fifty five years ago.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's I read this somewhere. So

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Speaker 1: where do we do Because we've got an old rail

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Speaker 1: infrastructure network, but we've got new technology. With old technology,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to well.

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Speaker 3: This technology apparently is only five years old, so there's

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Speaker 3: a new system in place. They put in five years ago,

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Speaker 3: and it was just a digital malfunction in the software

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Speaker 3: and it went down and they then couldn't communicate and

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Speaker 3: didn't know where the trains were, so they had to

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Speaker 3: shut everything down. And the timing as well was terrible,

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Speaker 3: just in the afternoon. But thank goodness they got it

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Speaker 3: fixed in an hour and fifteen minutes because then they're

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Speaker 3: able to get the p hour trains. It could have

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Speaker 3: been a lot worse.

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Speaker 1: Do you know if we're are we better around the world,

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Speaker 1: because obviously infrastructure around the world is going to fail.

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Speaker 1: But you look at somewhere like Singapore, their train network

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Speaker 1: didn'tly go in until the eighties, so that's really a

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Speaker 1: top notch train system. How do we compare around the world.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think metro which we're building. We've built the

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Speaker 3: Northwest Metro and we have the city in Southwest coming

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Speaker 3: and I mean that is state of the art transport

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Speaker 3: and that is the future. And I think if you

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Speaker 3: go ten twenty thirty years forwards, I think will have

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Speaker 3: a metro system that will be the best, best tech

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Speaker 3: anywhere in the world. Driverless metro trains, that's the future

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Speaker 3: and that's how we're going.

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Speaker 2: Wow, you're in an unusual position because the Liberal Party

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Speaker 2: or the coalition has been in power for twelve years.

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Speaker 2: So when you come in and say we want to

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Speaker 2: change this and make this better, this better, people say, well,

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Speaker 2: you've had twelve years. Why now, why isn't it better already?

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Speaker 2: How do you find how do you find your place

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Speaker 2: in that?

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Speaker 3: It's a good question. Things are much better today than

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Speaker 3: they were twelve years ago when we came to office.

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Speaker 3: You think of all the hospitals, the school the public transport,

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Speaker 3: the metro system. We've really transformed the state. I mean

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Speaker 3: you look at the construction the right across our city.

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Speaker 3: You know, the motorways, look at all the things we've built,

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Speaker 3: the North Connects, West Connects. These projects are changing people's lives.

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Speaker 3: But you've got to keep looking to the future. And

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Speaker 3: my job, and I've been Premier now for around eighteen months,

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Speaker 3: is to keep looking to the future. And the sign

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Speaker 3: of any good government is not one that just deals

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Speaker 3: with the issues of today. You've got to set up

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Speaker 3: our state for our children and their children. That's what

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Speaker 3: drives me, is Premiere is to always look at new

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Speaker 3: ways of doing things, and whether that's on the announcement

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Speaker 3: we've made on gambling reform, whether it's setting which I

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Speaker 3: think this is the biggest one I think for me,

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Speaker 3: has been setting up pre kindergarten for every child like that.

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Speaker 3: I think this will be the biggest game changer in

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Speaker 3: children's education in a generation. And I've seen that with

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Speaker 3: my own kids.

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Speaker 2: And it frees women also to go back.

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Speaker 3: To the work absolutely, and it's also a cost of

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Speaker 3: living issue as well. People can't afford preschool but if

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Speaker 3: every single child in New South Wales, which is what

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Speaker 3: I want to achieve, can have five days free preschool,

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Speaker 3: I know the impact that's going to have on women's

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Speaker 3: think it's an absolute game change is going to make

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Speaker 3: a real difference.

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Speaker 2: When you became premier, I'm sure it's not how you

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Speaker 2: imagined it would be. The sudden resignition resignation of Gladysbury

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Speaker 2: J clin Is the job what you thought it would

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Speaker 2: be because suddenly you were in it? Has it been

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Speaker 2: what you pictured in some ways?

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Speaker 3: I mean it's very different. I was Treasurer for five

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Speaker 3: years beforehand and that's very much behind the scenes, and

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Speaker 3: it's a great job because obviously you look across every

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Speaker 3: single area of government and putting the budgets together. You

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Speaker 3: make the investments where you think they're needed, and you

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Speaker 3: can see the benefits of that. But look, I work

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Speaker 3: very closely with glad Particularly the last four years we

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Speaker 3: went through droughts, bush fires, floods, the pandemic, and you know,

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Speaker 3: you've got a real sense of that job and the

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Speaker 3: pressure that you have as premiere because every day we

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Speaker 3: had those crisis cabinet meetings and glad we do those

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Speaker 3: eight am press conferences.

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Speaker 2: And then one day did dominate.

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Speaker 1: It's not me that well a.

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Speaker 3: Lot of the time when you sit back at those

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Speaker 3: priuds because you know where those we had great debates

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Speaker 3: in those crisis cabinet meetings and we always we always

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Speaker 3: had different perspectives, and ultimately the end of the day,

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Speaker 3: the premi is the one who's responsible. So you're on

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Speaker 3: the front line and you've got to make the cause

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Speaker 3: and you're accountable for those calls, and you don't always

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Speaker 3: get them right. You don't always get them right. But

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Speaker 3: I think in the main goes back to that question.

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Speaker 3: I think in the main, over the last twelve years,

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Speaker 3: issues do build up. But New South Belles a much

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Speaker 3: better place today than it was back then. And I'm

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Speaker 3: very proud of the legacy that of our government. But

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Speaker 3: ultimately we've just got to keep moving forward. No, I'm driven.

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Speaker 3: You say, you know, what's the job like, Yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: a challenging job. It's difficult. Every day there are new

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Speaker 3: issues that you have to face and you have to

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Speaker 3: deal with. But ultimately you make the sacrifice to go

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Speaker 3: on to politics to make the world a better place,

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Speaker 3: and I stay a better place and that's what drives

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Speaker 3: me in team.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't help that Chris Men's are so reasonable and

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Speaker 1: a nice guy. You would have been hoping for someone

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Speaker 1: like Luke Foley or something going up against because that

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Speaker 1: would I mean, well.

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Speaker 3: I think it's good that you have people on both

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Speaker 3: sides of politics who were driven to do good things.

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Speaker 3: And what's pleasing to me about this election campaign I think,

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Speaker 3: compared to the federal election campaign was so personality based.

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Speaker 3: I want this campaign to be about policy. People have

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Speaker 3: different ideas. Chris and I agree on some things, we

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Speaker 3: disagree on other things, and ultimately it's a matter for

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Speaker 3: people to make their mind about what the two visions

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Speaker 3: are and they make their judgment. Ultimately, from my perspective,

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Speaker 3: elections of performance.

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Speaker 2: At PRAIMS, can you report card mark?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you accept that, And I just think, but

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Speaker 3: from a perspective, you look at the jobs grow get

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Speaker 3: the lowest unemployment. Right, you want a job in your

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Speaker 3: South Wales, you can get a job. We're building so

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Speaker 3: many things for the future, the motorways, the metros, the

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Speaker 3: schools and the hospitals for our children and their children.

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Speaker 3: That's what inspires me every day to be in this job.

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Speaker 1: Well, good on your dominic, good luck, thanks you. Coming

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Speaker 1: up to the election twenty fourth of March, twenty fifth,

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Speaker 1: twenty fifth of March, I think no, okay, twenty five

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Speaker 1: that was a chest nothing could possibly go wrong.

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Speaker 3: But you could vote. You could vote. The wait before

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Speaker 3: I think okay.

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Speaker 2: Look see he's there covering your options.

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Speaker 1: Good Premier dominique perite, thank you for joining us, guys,