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Speaker 1: Last week we actually had a number of Territorians getting

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Speaker 1: contact about delays to receiving their Senior's Recognition card. Now

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Speaker 1: on the website it says that they are aware that

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Speaker 1: some NT Senior's Recognition Scheme prepaid cards for twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: five may not be working due to a technical issue,

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Speaker 1: and they are working with the card provided to fix

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Speaker 1: the problem and send replacement cards as soon as possible.

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Speaker 1: Now joining us on the line is Sue Shearer from Kota,

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Speaker 1: the Council of the Aging here in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Sue, Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: How are you're really good? Now? Sue? I know that

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Speaker 1: the Senior's wait for these cards to come out. It

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Speaker 1: is something you and I have spoken about before. Do

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Speaker 1: you know, like have you had seniors getting in contact

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Speaker 1: with you about the cards not working?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we sure have. They're all unfortunately there excuse me,

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Speaker 2: it was a cold air analyis I think a frogged mind.

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Speaker 1: That's all right.

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Speaker 2: The National Bank is what's the right word, it puts

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Speaker 2: out for the fifteen sixteen thousand cards you know, to

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Speaker 2: be loaded up and sent out because the National Bank

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Speaker 2: is is the government's bank. But they also outsource it.

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Speaker 2: That's the word I'm looking for in a long day. Yes,

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Speaker 2: to outsource it out. So the outsources to the people

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Speaker 2: doing it sent out about four thousand cards that didn't

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Speaker 2: have any any money on it. Okay, right, technical technical error.

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Speaker 2: So then they obviously we had people calling, you know,

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Speaker 2: I've just put petrol in my car and I can't

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Speaker 2: pay for it any So yes, I know, a bit sad.

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Speaker 2: So now they're issuing them all again. But most people

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Speaker 2: got a text message, so now they're issuing and they

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Speaker 2: should get them. Most of people should get them this

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Speaker 2: week or next week. But with the technical error by

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Speaker 2: the distributor of the card, unfortunately.

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Speaker 1: So unfortunate problem, unfortunate, but not avoidable by the sounds

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Speaker 1: of it. So did you say four thousand people impacted?

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Speaker 2: Well, for those cards were sent out without any any

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Speaker 2: money on them, so yeah, so well obviously they probably

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Speaker 2: were impacted. But you know, sometimes in this technical world

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Speaker 2: and digital world, and you know, things unfortunately happen. And

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Speaker 2: I said that the that bank obviously probably can't do

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Speaker 2: fifteen to sixteen or more thousand cards, so but they

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Speaker 2: are working on it, and I know I had a

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Speaker 2: lot of calls from people who got this message who

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Speaker 2: hadn't even received a card yet, and people asking like done,

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Speaker 2: and Alice had a lot of people asking yesterday as well,

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Speaker 2: you know where my card? I want to put it

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Speaker 2: on my water bill or I want to put it

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Speaker 2: on this bill. But you know, as I said, I

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Speaker 2: don't probably often defend the government, but on this are

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Speaker 2: working over time exactly, not their fault, and they are

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Speaker 2: working over time to get because they know that people

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Speaker 2: rely on that card and need it. And the other

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Speaker 2: thing they've been working on as well as you probably

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Speaker 2: know a lot of people they couldn't put an airfare

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Speaker 2: on a conscious and virgion. Yeah, so they're trying to

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Speaker 2: fix that and hopefully you'll be able to book airfares

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Speaker 2: on it as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. That's well, that is good to hear too, especially

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Speaker 1: if it means people can go away and see their

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Speaker 1: families and stuff.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's right. Well, originally, and you know, long time ago,

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Speaker 2: you could there was that travel allowance of like you know,

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Speaker 2: for airfares and things like that. You know, they did

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Speaker 2: a review and changed it and now everybody gets you know,

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Speaker 2: five hundred and fifty dollars which they increased but would

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Speaker 2: still like to see it index to CPI if it's

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Speaker 2: the cost of living and all that, So that's the

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Speaker 2: next you will be lobbying and annoying every politician up

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Speaker 2: here to increase it to six hundred. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, and do you know what, Like, I think our

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Speaker 1: seniors have paid their taxes, us have worked everybody's work

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Speaker 1: bloody hard, and if we're in a position financially where

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Speaker 1: it's able to be afforded, then that would be a

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Speaker 1: really a really good thing I think. So yeah, Hey,

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Speaker 1: is it Senior Month this month?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Sure? Is this our month? Katie? Like that, heels

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Speaker 2: up and there's lots of things to go through. There's trivia,

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Speaker 2: there's looking at treasures and the Wonderlust Tour down at

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Speaker 2: Berry Springs and all around. There's over one hundred activities

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Speaker 2: this month. So people are going to be rather exhausted

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Speaker 2: as well as they go and try something different, and

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Speaker 2: they'd be brave, you know, hop on a motorcycle and

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Speaker 2: do a tour, do tango dancing, you know all those

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Speaker 2: all those things, Katie. But also Katie, can I just

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Speaker 2: say as well that on the thirtieth of September and

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Speaker 2: the first of October, International Day of the Older Person.

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Speaker 2: Andrew Denton will be in Darwen to give a talk

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Speaker 2: from Go Gentle on voluntary sister dying. Were still look

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Speaker 2: to to organize the venue. Been liaging with them as

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Speaker 2: you know we go Gentle and they've raised money for

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Speaker 2: a campaign, so a fly will go out soon when

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Speaker 2: we've locked down the actual venue. But five thirty two

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Speaker 2: seven thirty on the thirty to September and nine thirty

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Speaker 2: to eleven thirty on the first of October, which is

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Speaker 2: International Day the elder Person. So they rather thrilled that

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Speaker 2: we've got Andrew to come up in Oh.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff will So once you lock in that venue,

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Speaker 1: give us a call back and we'll get you back

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Speaker 1: on to let people know no problem.

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Speaker 2: Thanks lovely to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you you too.

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Speaker 2: By Ba