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Speaker 1: Hello, Katie Wolvan three point sixty online at Mix one

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Speaker 1: O four nine dot com.

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Speaker 2: We are going to be catching up with John Patterson

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Speaker 2: from AMSANT in just a few moments time. There are

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Speaker 2: a lot of messages coming through this morning. One from

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Speaker 2: Steph and it says the minister can say you need

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Speaker 2: to book all she likes, but no one checked. I

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Speaker 2: did seven hours and forty cars from getting tested and

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Speaker 2: they closed at ten pm.

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Speaker 3: No one came near.

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Speaker 2: The line of cars to let us know we wouldn't

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Speaker 2: get seen until the police closed the access and let

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Speaker 2: cars know. As you drove out there were an easy

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Speaker 2: five hundred cars behind me, says Steph. Now our phone

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Speaker 2: lines are going absolutely berserk this morning. I'm just trying

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Speaker 2: to work out who I am going to, so I'll

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Speaker 2: just wait a moment and get the.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead from Ronnie.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure exactly, but I will just take your

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Speaker 2: cross as well. If you have a query that you

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Speaker 2: really need some help with. If you've got a COVID

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Speaker 2: nineteen health related query or inquiry such as seeking information

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Speaker 2: about getting that COVID nineteen taste, you can call the

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Speaker 2: COVID Hotline on one eight hundred for nine zero for

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Speaker 2: eight one. Now let's take a line too here. I

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Speaker 2: believe I've got David on the line. Good morning to you, David,

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Speaker 2: good morning, how are you mate?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm good. Tanks.

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Speaker 3: Were you in that line yesterday or how are you going?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, myself and the why you've had to separate

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Speaker 1: appointments in the line because we weren't allowed to book

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Speaker 1: us because there was myself, my son, and my wife.

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Speaker 1: So we're in the line from just before four pm yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we waited for a.

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Speaker 1: Couple of hours and then some police came down the

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Speaker 1: line and they were actually checking people's bookings. So everyone

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Speaker 1: was there, to my knowledge basically had a booking and

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Speaker 1: a couple of hours in we've got to about six

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Speaker 1: o'clock the police came down the line and they said,

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Speaker 1: you will be tested if if you wait in the line,

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Speaker 1: they're going to extend it. Yeah, because I said I

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Speaker 1: would rather know now and just read book and come

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Speaker 1: back tomorrow. And he said, he said, based on the

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Speaker 1: information we have, which was sketchy, they said that there

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Speaker 1: would we would be seen. And then, like the other

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Speaker 1: listener said, we got to about ten pm yesterday and

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Speaker 1: they just walked down the line told us that we're

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Speaker 1: going to be turned away basically, well, and when I

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Speaker 1: asked about, you know, the next day, he said, you

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Speaker 1: will be given priority. So we basically turned down. We

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Speaker 1: drove past the Q initially went to the roadblock, and

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Speaker 1: the police and who were spoke to there said, you

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Speaker 1: basically just got to join the queue.

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Speaker 2: So we're just repeating, David, what exposure site were you are?

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Speaker 2: So what what's yours and your family's concern?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we were at the Gateway Center and we

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Speaker 1: were in woollies at the times listeners on the website.

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Speaker 1: We rechecked our electronic transactions and things, and we were

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Speaker 1: definitely there. In the case of we think we were there,

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Speaker 1: we were definitely there. There's no mechanism for sorting out

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Speaker 1: these people who were definitely there and people who just

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Speaker 1: think it's a good idea to get tested.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're hearing quite a lot of that.

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Speaker 2: You know that potentially there's people in that line who

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Speaker 2: really probably don't need to be here, did be there

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Speaker 2: at this point?

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Speaker 3: David, Can you keep in contact with us this morning

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Speaker 3: and let us know how you go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, yeah, we definitely will.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So, yeah, we're still on McMillan's road. And we've been

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Speaker 1: here now about an hour, just under an hour. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: so it doesn't appear to be we think we do

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Speaker 1: seem to be flowing a little bit faster than yesterday, Paul. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it looks like the same mess. And yeah, yesterday we

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Speaker 1: seen people one of the gin Link friends from checking

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Speaker 1: a feed and this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well this is the thing if people are going

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Speaker 2: to be waiting for that extended period of time.

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Speaker 3: David.

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Speaker 2: We are absolutely banked up on the phone lines this

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Speaker 2: morning as well, no doubt with more people who are

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Speaker 2: lined up. I really appreciate you calling. Please keep in

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Speaker 2: contact with us this morning and let us know how

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Speaker 2: that line goes. I believe that I've got Samantha on

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Speaker 2: the line right now. Good morning to you, Samantha.

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Speaker 3: Hi Katie, how are you not bad? Whereabouts to you?

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Speaker 3: Are you in that line as well?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're sitting in the car park. I think it's

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Speaker 4: the Rugby facility. We had an appointment booked for a

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Speaker 4: thirty this morning. That was after we came out yesterday

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Speaker 4: morning to be told that we needed to get an appointment,

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Speaker 4: even though it was supposed to be a drive through service.

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Speaker 4: So we've booked. We're sitting in the queue because I've

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Speaker 4: got a thought threat and that sort of thing that

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Speaker 4: I've had for a few days. So we're just waiting now.

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Speaker 3: And the guy.

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Speaker 4: Told us as we were pulling into the car park

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Speaker 4: that there were apparently three hundred priority people from last

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Speaker 4: night that are in front of us.

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Speaker 2: Wow, it sounds like it's going to take a while

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Speaker 2: to get through. And yeah, and you know, I do

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Speaker 2: feel for those health stuff that are there, No doubt

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Speaker 2: they are working their absolute butts off to try and

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Speaker 2: get through everybody quickly. But it sounds like the demand

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Speaker 2: is massive, and to me, it sounds like we need

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Speaker 2: either another center set up pretty well immediately or additional

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Speaker 2: staff to try to get through everyone.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Look, I would agree with you.

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Speaker 4: I think the health staff are probably doing a tremendous

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Speaker 4: job under the circumstances. But I would also say I

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Speaker 4: think there needs to be a lot better clearer.

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Speaker 3: Communication about what is actually.

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Speaker 4: Really happening and where to go. There were people that,

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Speaker 4: I mean, we sat on McMillan's road for quite a

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Speaker 4: while ourselves, and there were people that were trying to

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Speaker 4: turn in in front of us at traffic lights. Which

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Speaker 4: is understandable, but they only closed the road off an

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Speaker 4: hour after so that everybody could queue up. So I

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Speaker 4: just think that there needs to be better communication from

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Speaker 4: the Health Minister and the Chief Minister as to how

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Speaker 4: this setup is actually meant to work.

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Speaker 3: You spot on and do you know what I reckon?

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Speaker 2: We're going to we might get in contact with the

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Speaker 2: Health Department as well and get them to give us

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Speaker 2: a bit of an update and in addition to what

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Speaker 2: the Health Minister said this morning, so that we can

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Speaker 2: actually communicate with all of you guys that are lined up,

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Speaker 2: because it sounds as though there's thousands of Territorians waiting

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Speaker 2: at this point in time.

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Speaker 3: To get tested.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Samantha, thank you for your time. Can you also

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Speaker 2: let us know please how you go throughout the morning and.

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Speaker 3: When you do get in there, we'll do. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Samantha, and that number if it keen to call

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Speaker 2: through eight nine four one one four nine. We're being

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Speaker 2: inundated with calls and messages this morning. We're going to

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Speaker 2: take a very short break and when we come back

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Speaker 2: we are going to be speaking to John Patterson from

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Speaker 2: amsand but there are a lot of you messaging through

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Speaker 2: this morning, a lot of you sort of questioning how

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Speaker 2: we're not more prepared at this point in time. Somebody

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Speaker 2: who's gotten in contact and said, we knew that this

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Speaker 2: was going to be a difficult situation after what happened

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Speaker 2: with the Melbourne hotspot just a few weeks ago, and

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Speaker 2: you spot on. You know, we obviously had the Health

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Speaker 2: Minister in that Friday morning for the week that was

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Speaker 2: and had said that we were being inundated with messages

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Speaker 2: and calls from people who were trying to get tested

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Speaker 2: when that hotspot declaration was called and people had come

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Speaker 3: Now we're in this situation that we're.

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Speaker 2: In, and you know, to me, it does seem as

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Speaker 2: though we are going to need to even if it's

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Speaker 2: just for today and tomorrow, well for the next couple

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Speaker 2: of days. It seems as though we are going to

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Speaker 2: need more capacity when it comes to testing