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Speaker 1: I think it's time to bring in our special guests.

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Speaker 2: It is the Premier, Roger Cook.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning guys.

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Speaker 2: How's it going very well?

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Speaker 4: You're living and breathing Wa because you are indeed stuck

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Speaker 4: in Quanana Freeway track, so you are you're a method

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Speaker 4: premier this morning. Can we We've got all sorts of

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Speaker 4: things to talk about. Can we just start with a

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Speaker 4: a topic that's that's not fun mental health. What happened

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Speaker 4: in Sydney on the weekend was obviously an absolute tragedy

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Speaker 4: and I don't think we're in any doubt that it

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Speaker 4: had to do with a man's mental health. Mental health

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Speaker 4: for issues are for whatever reason, on the rise, and

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Speaker 4: I know that the state government has back to task

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Speaker 4: force or there is a state government backed task force

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Speaker 4: that is assessing mental health support for Wa farmers at

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Speaker 4: the moment because of conditions that are causing you know,

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Speaker 4: some mental health issues there. It must be a really

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Speaker 4: tough one, Premiere. It's one that you've got to sort

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Speaker 4: of get ahead of and rather than you know, the

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Speaker 4: issues becoming what they came to on the weekend in Sydney.

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Speaker 4: But I mean, how do you stay on top of

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Speaker 4: that what does our government do to try to be

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Speaker 4: ahead of any mental health problems.

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Speaker 3: Yes, certainly, mental health continues to be a challenge for

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Speaker 3: all governments everywhere. We know that mental health issues are

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Speaker 3: on the rise, you know, and that's right across all demographics,

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Speaker 3: young people, older people, And we know that having many

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Speaker 3: hospital beds and in hospital care is an important part

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Speaker 3: of that, and we've invested significantly, significantly in that area.

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Speaker 3: But it's also about making sure we've got community supports

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Speaker 3: as well. Ultimately, we want people to be able to

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Speaker 3: live and work and be in the communities that they love,

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Speaker 3: so it's also important to make sure that we've got

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Speaker 3: those community supports. So what we look at in terms

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Speaker 3: of mental health issues is both how do we assist

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Speaker 3: people to stop them tipping into a serious episode of

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Speaker 3: mental health illness. How do we when we do, what

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Speaker 3: is the appropriate circumstance of care, whether that's involuntary care

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Speaker 3: But we're investing heavily at the moment around, particularly in

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Speaker 3: the youth area, our acute Outreach services, which is about

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Speaker 3: making sure that we've got people mental health workers working

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Speaker 3: supports they need that they continue to live in those communities.

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Speaker 4: I think the community in its in and of itself

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Speaker 4: actually has become a lot better than East because I

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Speaker 4: don't actually think mental health issues are on the rise.

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Speaker 2: I think it's just.

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Speaker 4: That people now are more open to talking about them.

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Speaker 4: They're less ignored. You know, there was a stigma attached,

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Speaker 4: you know.

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Speaker 3: I think that's a great point. Yeah, we are better

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Speaker 3: at talking about it absolutely and treating it as something which,

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Speaker 3: you know, like any illness, is something that we just

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Speaker 3: have to assist people to manage.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think even the reporting of yesterday's that the incident

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Speaker 1: and bondo across the weekend is also you look at

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Speaker 1: something in the past it may not have been the

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Speaker 1: mental health issue brought to the full were just being

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Speaker 1: the headliner and the monster and all that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, course I agree it is, Yeah, spoke.

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Speaker 3: Look what happened in Sydney on the weekend is a

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Speaker 3: dreadful tragedy, Yes, indeed, and which has now been I

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Speaker 3: noticed has been designated as a terrorist. Yes, fault, but

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Speaker 3: at least you know, well, on the weekend I was

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Speaker 3: able to reach out to Chris Means, the new South

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Speaker 3: Wales Premier just express on behalf of all Western Australians

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Speaker 3: our heartfelt simple of course, yeah to everyone that was

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Speaker 3: impacted by that horrible series of events at Bondou Junction.

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Speaker 1: It was very sad to hit us, hit us all

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Speaker 1: hard around the country and people around the world were

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Speaker 1: affected by it. Now, Premier, I noticed on social media

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Speaker 1: yesterday some numbers popping up impressive numbers with people claiming

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Speaker 1: the WA student assistance payment. Close to twenty nine thousand

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Speaker 1: families benefiting already.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, round about fifty thousands of this morning. So people

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Speaker 3: are really embracing this opportunity to get that little bit

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Speaker 3: great that people are responding in this way. It just

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Speaker 3: think the WA school assistance payment would be well and

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Speaker 3: truly welcomed by those families right across Western Australia.

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Speaker 4: No one's going to go, oh no, thank you one

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Speaker 4: two fifty for the bigger kids there, I'm full, yeah, Roger,

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Speaker 4: I won't just a wife within mid No, no, thank you.

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Speaker 4: The Margaret River Pro has been guaranteed for another four

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Speaker 4: years sex of state government funding. Now this is this

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Speaker 4: is great news for the sport and for tourism.

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Speaker 2: I've always thought the Margat River.

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Speaker 4: Pro had a fair bit to do with putting Margaret

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Speaker 4: River on the map as one of the great draw

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Speaker 4: cards of our state.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, absolutely, this is a fantastic piece of news.

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Speaker 3: We're really excited to concern that the World Surfing League

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Speaker 3: will be coming to Margaret River for the Margaret River

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Speaker 3: Pro for at least the next four years. This is,

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Speaker 3: as you say, Lek, so this is incredibly important for

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Speaker 3: continuing to attract global attention to Western Australia. These these

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Speaker 3: surfers have got a social media reach of at least

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Speaker 3: sixty million and on some of the days that we've

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Speaker 3: noticed this over this tournament where they've had to suspend surfing,

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Speaker 3: they go play God. Also they go to restaurants, they

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Speaker 3: talked to their fans about how great the Southwestern Margaret

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Speaker 3: River is. In twenty twenty three, we had over three

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Speaker 3: thy four hundred visitors as a result of the direct

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Speaker 3: result of the Market River Pro, including an eight million

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Speaker 3: dollar injection into the local economy. So it's not just

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Speaker 3: great for continuing to draw attention to this terrific state

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Speaker 3: that we have, but it's also a real boost for

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Speaker 3: the local economy and local jobs. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And mister Premium, speaking of benefiting microt River will

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Speaker 1: benefit from that decision of China removing the wine teriffs

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Speaker 1: on Aussie wines as well, because that's got my word.

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Speaker 3: I had a meeting. I had a roundtable meeting with

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Speaker 3: the wine industry in Margaret River on Friday. I'll tell

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Speaker 3: you what though, but not a single drop of wine

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Speaker 3: water a showbag. Yeah nothing. Anyway, we do bet to

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Speaker 3: have a great conversation about the wine industry and really

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Speaker 3: getting our Western Australian wind back into the China market.

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Speaker 3: It's a huge market and we're really excited about what

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Speaker 3: this opportunity represents a great, great effort by the federal

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Speaker 3: government to bring well done, to bring wine back to

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Speaker 3: the China market. So yeah, I've got to have a

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Speaker 3: word to someone in the office.

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Speaker 2: You want to show me.

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Speaker 3: I think I'm the only person ever to have gone

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Speaker 3: to market River and not have a single drama wise,

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Speaker 3: what's going on now?

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Speaker 4: The Jagen Square redevelopment is just about done eight million

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Speaker 4: dollar injection from the government of the fourteen million dollars

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Speaker 4: it's costing.

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Speaker 2: The first of the new eateries, which is called.

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Speaker 4: Alba, opened last Wednesday, with the remaining venues to be

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Speaker 4: opened by May six. In fact, I noticed a few

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Speaker 4: the next couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: How are we all fingers crossed?

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Speaker 4: Do you think, well, obviously you're not going to put

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Speaker 4: going to work. But are you feeling confident that'll all?

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Speaker 4: It'll be what it's We've always hoped it's going to

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Speaker 4: be Eagan Square.

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Speaker 3: Look, look we are so we're really excited about how

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Speaker 3: that whole city center is coming alive. You've seen you

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Speaker 3: Now that of itself will bring you every day.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's going to change everything. Game changing, right,

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Speaker 4: game changer, A game changer it will be.

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Speaker 3: It will be really exciting and it would be such

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Speaker 3: a vibrant precinct. We're really excited about that development, and

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Speaker 3: you know, just bringing a an experienced operator into that

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Speaker 3: a great opportunity as well. So we're really looking forward

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Speaker 2: Off and premiere before you go.

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Speaker 1: The Western Derby's on Derby fifty eight and it's the

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Speaker 1: current score is Eagles thirty two for twenty five before

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Speaker 1: have won of the last five from memory, So how

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Speaker 1: do you think it's going to go? And you've got

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Speaker 1: a tip.

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Speaker 3: For us number twenty six for the for the Dockers,

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Speaker 3: you're back coming. But then again, look I'm not a

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Speaker 3: great expert on footy, but I am a huge fan

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Speaker 3: of the Dockers, so I'll always back them anyway. But look,

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Speaker 3: it's going to be a great weekend, as you know,

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Speaker 3: we all reflect, you know, we are having an extraordinary

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Speaker 3: extended summer. Yeah, that's right, So that provides a great

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Speaker 3: hope everyone gets along to the footy. But we just

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Speaker 3: like conditions at the moment. That's why, as you mentioned earlier,

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Speaker 3: least we've got our task course looking at farmer support

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Speaker 3: particularly also mental health supports for farmers. So it's going

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Speaker 3: to be great weather for the footy. But look, let's

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Speaker 3: bring on some rain.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and in honor of the tariff, the tariff situation,

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Speaker 4: may we all enjoy a great Southern Merlow football game.

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Speaker 2: Roger, thank you so much. Good luck with the traffic

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Speaker 2: then Premier. Okay, bye Rogie Cook this morning