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Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf. Join the conversation with Katie Wolf.

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Speaker 1: You are our eyes and ears in the Territory Mix

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Speaker 1: one oh four point nine.

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Speaker 2: Twenty eight minutes after nine o'clock. You are listening to

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Speaker 2: Mix one oh four point nine, and we know that

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Speaker 2: today is the day that the next phase of the

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Speaker 2: COVID rollout gets underway. Phase one B is rolling out

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Speaker 2: seeing the immunization of elderly adults, Indigenous ozsies aged fifty

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Speaker 2: five and over, and some adults with medical conditions and

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Speaker 2: critical or high risk workers that weren't vaccinated in Phase

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Speaker 2: one A. Now joining me on the line to talk

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Speaker 2: a little bit more about how some of our wonderful

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Speaker 2: senior territorians are feeling at the moment. CEO of the

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Speaker 2: Council of the Aging here in the Northern Territory, Sue

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Speaker 2: Sheer Our Good morning, Sue.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Katie. How are you today?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I'm a bit crooked soue, but I'm soldiering on.

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Speaker 2: How are our seniors? How are our seniors feeling about

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Speaker 2: receiving the vaccine?

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Speaker 1: I did a quick survey this morning and actually probably

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Speaker 1: nine out of ten are very happy and well, you know,

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Speaker 1: ninety nine percent are very happy and they can't wait together,

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Speaker 1: and they've looked in one will get it. There's probably

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Speaker 1: about a week's wait they've waiting for it to actually

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Speaker 1: get you first. But no, they're all all really excited

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Speaker 1: and don't have any doubts whatsoever. Last week was a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a different story. I had a few

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Speaker 1: calls from some who are with trepidation. We're really quite

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Speaker 1: worried about it, but are going don't listen to doctor

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Speaker 1: Facebook or doctor Google. You know, I do your research

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Speaker 1: and do it properly. But there's a lot of confidence

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Speaker 1: out there now, which is fantastic. But the usual health

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Speaker 1: advice if you do have an underlying health condition, please

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Speaker 1: talk to your doctor. But overall, really please that they've

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Speaker 1: got the confidence and there I wouldn't say looking forward

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Speaker 1: to it, but they're ready, very excited that they're going

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Speaker 1: to be protected against this horrible virus.

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Speaker 2: So what is the process for our seniors from today

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Speaker 2: if you're over the age of seventy, do you just

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Speaker 2: get in contact with one of those prescribed clinics or

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Speaker 2: what exactly do they need to do?

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Speaker 1: Some of them try going online, but that's a little

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Speaker 1: bit too difficult. Most of them will ring or pop

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Speaker 1: into their local GP, and I must admit, there's probably

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Speaker 1: only three or four days wait list, a lot of

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Speaker 1: going next week, so I would advise them to either

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Speaker 1: ring or pop into a lot of them as well

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Speaker 1: don't have access to a computer, so I'd say, just

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Speaker 1: ring your local GP and mak an appointment, and I'm

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Speaker 1: sure that you'll be fitted in because you are a priority,

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Speaker 1: so you should be fitted in fairly quickly.

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Speaker 2: And Sue, do you know, do our seniors know whether

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Speaker 2: they're going to be getting the astrosenica or whether they're

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Speaker 2: going to be getting the other one? The name escapes

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Speaker 2: me at the moment.

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Speaker 1: They'll be getting the astrosenic.

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Speaker 2: Okay, And have you had yours yet? When do you

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Speaker 2: get yours? You're not seventy good on you sharing, so

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Speaker 2: you don't have to have yours for a while. When

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Speaker 2: do you get to have yours?

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Speaker 1: Well? I probably do have. I had a little bit

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Speaker 1: of an underlying health condition called chronic obstructive airways disease,

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Speaker 1: so I probably will get mine. I'm going to actually

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Speaker 1: walk down to my GP which is in the Metell

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Speaker 1: Center and just say, you know, if I do qualify,

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Speaker 1: which is fine. If I don't, well I'll just wait,

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Speaker 1: but I'll be definitely most most looking at that. But

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Speaker 1: the other one is the visor. But it's an astrazenica yep.

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Speaker 1: That most people will be getting, and I know there

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Speaker 1: are a few out there who won't have it because

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Speaker 1: there's still a little bit hesitant. But I'd say ninety

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Speaker 1: eight percent of seniors, as I said, are very excited

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Speaker 1: because I also want the confidence to go down and

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Speaker 1: visit their grandchildren and they don't obviously want to give

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Speaker 1: it to other members of their family interstate. And also

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Speaker 1: next year, a lot of them love to travel, so

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Speaker 1: they when those travel bubbles are hopefully done with some

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Speaker 1: or the hours New Zealand, but with Singapore they can

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Speaker 1: start jumping again. But the main thing is they really

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Speaker 1: do the great nomads and everything else. They want to

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Speaker 1: travel and go and see their family interstate without worrying

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Speaker 1: about if they're going to contract this as we said,

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Speaker 1: this despicable virus.

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Speaker 2: Well absolutely, and Sue I reckon, there'll be plenty of

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Speaker 2: people that are really keen to get out there and

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Speaker 2: get their vaccine. Let us know how it all goes

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Speaker 2: over the next couple of weeks. We'll keep in contact

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Speaker 2: with you.

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Speaker 1: Well, Katie, my heart goes out. I'll be down in

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Speaker 1: Allen Springs next late next week. Ye, my heart goes

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Speaker 1: out again to the people down there. I just find it.

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Speaker 1: I can't think of the right word. I can, but

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Speaker 1: I can't say it on your radio show. It's just

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Speaker 1: these people have no respect at all for themselves or

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Speaker 1: anybody else, and it's just despicable. My heart goes out

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Speaker 1: to the town.

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Speaker 2: How are our seniors going in Allie Springs at the moment.

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Speaker 1: They're frightened, and as I said, quite a few who

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have considered leaving are going to leave. They are

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Speaker 1: either traveling pairs or they don't take their bags with them.

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Speaker 1: That's how that's how cautious they're being now. So you really,

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Speaker 1: you know, you really shouldn't have to worry about that

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Speaker 1: when you're just going to do your grocery shopping. But

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Speaker 1: they do because they are. They said, they're targeted because

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Speaker 1: they can't run away. Their reactions are a little bit slow.

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Speaker 1: They are exceptionally vulnerable. And to have you, I said,

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Speaker 1: somebody you know, steal your bag and while you're sitting there,

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Speaker 1: like this other guy steal your cigarettes and do all

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Speaker 1: these things. There's just no respect. I would hope actually

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Speaker 1: the government would consider and I'll get held down with this.

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Speaker 1: They make these particular children wards of the state because

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Speaker 1: obviously their family doesn't care about them, so they've got

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Speaker 1: nowhere to go. So I think they should be made

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Speaker 1: wars of the state. We should stop worrying about another

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Speaker 1: stolen generation and make these kids' wars of the state,

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Speaker 1: and then we know where they are and they themselves

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Speaker 1: are safe.

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Speaker 2: Well, and Sue, do you know what. I'm sure that

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Speaker 2: there's probably, you know, seniors in Ellice Springs at the

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Speaker 2: moment who are feeling so terribly scared and it's not.

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Speaker 1: Fair, you know.

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Speaker 2: And it's really when you're talking about kids being on

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Speaker 2: the street at one o'clock in the morning and all

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Speaker 2: hours of the night. They need somewhere safe to sleep.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's obviously unbelievably not on our for our seniors.

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Speaker 2: But you know, you also think to yourself, what hope

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Speaker 2: of some of these kids. God, if they don't even

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Speaker 2: have somewhere safe to stay.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, And that's what I'm in the water that have

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Speaker 1: to be looked after that have somewhere safe to go to.

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Speaker 1: So to me it's a fairly it's a big move,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's necessary. These kids won't learn anything,

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Speaker 1: as you said, seven eight nine, God or Mighty, whether

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Speaker 1: their parents or their parents anywhere to be seen, and

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Speaker 1: they haven't got anywhere to go, these children. But so

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Speaker 1: it's a really sad set of affairs. But it is

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Speaker 1: that Current Affairs show and it really it really brought

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Speaker 1: home to me. It was really quite sad though that

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Speaker 1: the untold damage now gone to their tourism industry. So

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Speaker 1: it's a no win situation either, which you're really said.

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Speaker 2: That's you're right, Sue, we are going to have to

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Speaker 2: leave it there, Sue Shier and well, not looking a

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Speaker 2: day over fifty. Su Shier.

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Speaker 1: Number twenty four, number number eight.

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Speaker 2: Love it. Good on you, Sue, always good to catch

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Speaker 2: up with you. Thank you for your time today.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, better Bubba, thank you.

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Speaker 2: That's Sushira there, who is of course the Kosha nt CEO,

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Speaker 2: the counsel of the agent here in the territory