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Speaker 1: Joining me on the line right now is the Federal

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Speaker 1: member for Solomon, Luke Gosling.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Luke.

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Speaker 3: Good a Katie in Town's great out there.

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Speaker 2: Mate, this is the place to be. Where are you

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Speaker 2: going to be enjoying Melbourne Cup today.

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Speaker 3: I've had Elbow as you know, and Richard Miles in town,

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Speaker 3: so we've had a great couple of visits this morning,

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Speaker 3: but Elbows heading off. I'm going to take Richard Miles

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Speaker 3: down to the Turf Club to watch your race down

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Speaker 3: there and put a bed on.

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Speaker 1: Oh good stuff, And I tell you what how I

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Speaker 1: mean obviously we're all feeling full of Victorians at this

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Speaker 1: point in time.

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Speaker 2: It's a tough time that they're going through.

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Speaker 1: But how exciting is it for us here in the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory that we've got things like the crocodile races,

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Speaker 1: the horse races, the frog racers, you name it. We're

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Speaker 1: racing it in the territory today and we're able to

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Speaker 1: get out and about and enjoy, you know, enjoy the

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Speaker 1: Cup day however you choose. But it's looking as though

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Speaker 1: we're going to have bigger than what they are at Flemington.

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Speaker 3: And that's been it is fantastic, and that's why I

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Speaker 3: suppose we're taking a little break out of our program

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Speaker 3: to pop down there to the surf gold and say

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Speaker 3: good ay to people. But the Northern Territory lifted its

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Speaker 3: ban on people from a regional Victoria coming into the

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Speaker 3: Northern Territory, and five hours later Richard Marles landed in

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Speaker 3: d He didn't waste any time. He's come straight up

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Speaker 3: and it is brilliant and everyone takes it seriously, and

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Speaker 3: we want to maintain what we've got. So everyone's going

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Speaker 3: to have a great time, and good luck to everyone

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Speaker 3: putting a bed on. But I haven't got a tip

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Speaker 3: for you. But I was interested to hear Katie that

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Speaker 3: there was a horse in the cup with a territory connection,

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Speaker 3: so I'll put a bit each way on there.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's what I was thinking as well, Luke, and

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Speaker 1: Maddy Hepworth had told us that I trust Maddy Hepworth.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure got it right that there is a territory

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Speaker 2: connection to that horse. That's what I was thinking.

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Speaker 1: Well, only for a Winslow come there for wins now, Luke,

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Speaker 1: obviously you have had your federal counterparts here over the

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Speaker 1: last couple of days and you are going to continue

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Speaker 1: to have them over the next couple of days.

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Speaker 2: Mate, Tourism has been on the agenda, hasn't it.

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Speaker 3: Very much so? And speaking of crocs, thanks to Professor

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Speaker 3: Graham Webb and the fantastic team Shannon who showed us

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Speaker 3: Crocodilis and that's a fantastic example of part of our

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Speaker 3: tourism offering here. And lets you just hope that more

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Speaker 3: and more of the word's going to get out that

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Speaker 3: the territories are the place to be even when it's

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Speaker 3: a bit warm. But yeah, we certainly have heard the

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Speaker 3: message loud and clear from the tourism sector. It's just

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Speaker 3: taking much too long for the federal government's investment that

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Speaker 3: they keep talking about for Kakadu to actually get onto

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Speaker 3: the ground. I mean, what are we waiting for. It's

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Speaker 3: a bit of a duel in the tourism top end Crown.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, we just we'll obviously back in Camber next

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Speaker 3: roads actually happened so we can open up some of

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Speaker 3: some more of our amazing places to the Australian public

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Speaker 3: and in time to the world again once COVID is

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Speaker 3: under control.

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Speaker 1: And Luke, I understand this morning as well that you've

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Speaker 1: also been at the press conference talking about childcare.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, Codie. It's we went out to Casarina

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Speaker 3: and thanks to Alice and her team there it's Kasarina

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Speaker 3: family childcare. Child is massively important that it enables families

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Speaker 3: But it's just so expensive. So what Albo did in

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Speaker 3: not only for the child's benefit the families benefit, but

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Speaker 3: assistance with child care. So ninety seven percent of families

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Speaker 3: under labor will save between six hundred to three thousand

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Speaker 3: will be worse off. But we see it as an

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Speaker 3: economic policy as well, because too often families are working

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Speaker 3: a bit more assistance there. And we're out there today

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Speaker 2: And look, look, I think we all agree.

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Speaker 1: I know myself when I had two kids in childcare

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Speaker 1: at the same time. It's bloody expensive. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: almost easier to stay home in terms of the cost

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Speaker 2: But you need it in a lot of ways for

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Speaker 2: your mental health and to get back into life. But mate,

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Speaker 2: how can we afford it? How is the country going

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Speaker 2: to be able to afford to do this?

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Speaker 3: Well, every report, and this is a conservative figure, every

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Speaker 3: in benefit to the economy. And that's a conservative figure.

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Speaker 3: So it is an investment in the money that we

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Speaker 3: will be assisting families with by lifting the maximum childcare

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Speaker 3: subsidy rates to ninety percent, will have a benefit in

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Speaker 3: the economy, will produce more productivity by having the parents

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Speaker 3: childhood education. So we think it's a great economic plan,

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Speaker 3: but it's also we're in a situation now, Cody. In

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Speaker 3: the last budget where the federal government has spent an

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Speaker 3: additional about one hundred billion, or at least they've announced it.

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Speaker 3: Part of the problem is they announced a lot, but

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Speaker 3: then there's very little delivery. We've done the sums on this.

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Speaker 3: It will bring back two dollars in an economy. For

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Speaker 3: every one dollar spend, it's going to be a six

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Speaker 3: brought down. We'll have a mid year economic outlook by

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Speaker 3: the end of the year and we'll see then how

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Speaker 3: the economy is rebounding. But by next year and by

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Speaker 3: there's enough actual stimulatory effect in the economy, and that's

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Speaker 3: what we'll continue to keep calling on the federal government

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Speaker 3: to do so that people stay in their jobs and

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Speaker 3: we can grow the economy and rebound back as strongly

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Speaker 1: Luke, we are going to have to wrap up, but

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Speaker 1: I do want to ask you very quickly and We

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Speaker 1: did talk to the Northern Territory Health Minister about this

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Speaker 1: earlier this morning. I know it's a bit outside of

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Speaker 1: the moment with the GP services is something that's really

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Speaker 1: got the residents of Catherine quite concerned. They are looking

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Speaker 1: at having an interim measure in place in the next

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Speaker 1: few weeks. There's a bit of sort of confusion about

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Speaker 1: whose responsibility this is, but it does seem to me

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Speaker 2: What do you think needs to be happening here?

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Speaker 3: I think exactly what Natasha Follows did last week and

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Speaker 3: we caught up with her in Canberra and she when

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Speaker 3: the federal labor side as well as the government about

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Speaker 3: about a longer term solution to this, but also an

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Speaker 3: immediate solution. So I'm not keen to bag out the

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Speaker 3: federal government too much until until they've had an opportunity

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Speaker 3: to put in a solution. But we'll be asking them

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Speaker 3: that Natasha Files is continuing to work on it. I

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Speaker 3: do my brother's working down in Catherine. At the moment.

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Speaker 3: I really feel for people down there and we're doing

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Speaker 3: everything we can from the opposition's perspective to get a

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Speaker 3: solution happening with the primary health net work. But at

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Speaker 3: the end of the day, we wish, we wish people

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Speaker 3: down there well, and we'll keep pressuring the Federal Health

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Speaker 3: amongst everything else that's going on, so that we get

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Speaker 3: a solution sooner rather than later.

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Speaker 2: Well, Luke Gosling, we are going to have to leave

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Speaker 2: it there.

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Speaker 1: Good to speak with you this morning, and your tip

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Speaker 1: Prince of Iran, that's the one I think with the

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Speaker 1: Central Australia connection.

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Speaker 3: We'll go to the Prince put a bit each way

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Speaker 3: and everyone have a great day and out there Verry

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Speaker 3: springs as well with the Crocs you too.

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Speaker 1: Mate, always good to catch up. Thanks for your time

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Speaker 1: this morning. That was Luke Gosling, their Labour's member for

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Speaker 1: Solomon