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Speaker 1: The CEO of the end or the chief executive of

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Speaker 1: the NT Cattleman's Association, Will joins.

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Speaker 2: Me on the line right now.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Will, Good morning Katie. Thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for your time. Mate.

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Speaker 1: What is the latest on the situation with Australia's live

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Speaker 1: cattle trade?

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Speaker 2: Are we back on?

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Speaker 3: We are back on. It's very good news and very

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Speaker 3: welcome news. Last Friday we've received our import permits and

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Speaker 3: looking like a very busy couple of months.

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Speaker 2: So the permits have been signed.

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Speaker 1: Did we already have exports sort of they're ready to

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Speaker 1: go or are they ready to go soon?

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Speaker 3: Yes, we have quite a large number of cattle that

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Speaker 3: are prepared for export. We're hoping to get them on

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Speaker 3: the water as soon as we can.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so nothing gone across just yet, but soon enough.

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Speaker 3: We've been supplying some of our other markets during the

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Speaker 3: period that we've been able to keep the boats moving,

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Speaker 3: but we're very excited to be able to go back

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Speaker 3: to Indonesia with what's going to be some pretty big numbers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Mate, How important was it to get things moving again

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Speaker 1: or to you know, to really get this going again?

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Speaker 3: Really important? Cardi, So this period of time in Indonesia

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Speaker 3: is obviously we're coming up to the breaking of fast

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Speaker 3: and the breaking of Ramadan. It's a peak demand period

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Speaker 3: for us, so we really need to be able to

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Speaker 3: supply as many cattle as we can to our customers

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Speaker 3: in market so they can prepare those cattle to be

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Speaker 3: eaten once we break fast, once we break the fast

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Speaker 3: of Ramadan. So peak demand for US is kind of

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Speaker 3: like being a turkey producer in the United States right

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Speaker 3: before Thanksgiving. You know, this is sort of the moment

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Speaker 3: for us. So yeah, very keen to get as many

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Speaker 3: cattle over there as possible.

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Speaker 1: Like how many cattle are you expecting to export? You know,

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Speaker 1: when that does finally really get.

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Speaker 3: Going, Well, look, we had the biggest December that we've

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Speaker 3: had in a very long time last year. Hopefully in

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Speaker 3: the next month two months we'll see sort of thirty

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Speaker 3: forty maybe fifty thousand head of lives don't get over there.

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Speaker 3: So we're just preparing those animals now. We're quickly going

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Speaker 3: out and pulling everything we can out of paddocks, getting

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Speaker 1: Has it been I mean, it does sound as though

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Speaker 1: it's been quite the setback for for exporters, for producers,

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Speaker 1: for everybody in the industry. Really, given the fact that

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Speaker 1: you've had kind of over a month then where you've

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Speaker 1: not been able to get those the catalytic sports out,

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Speaker 1: I've no doubt that now the green light going ahead

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Speaker 1: is such a huge sigh of relief from so many people.

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Speaker 3: Well, it really is. And look, we knew this period

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Speaker 3: was going to be difficult. Obviously, really big election this

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Speaker 3: knew it was going to be a little bit challenging

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Speaker 3: to get everything we needed with eureaucracy. It is important

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Speaker 3: to note that it wasn't just like catile they were

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Speaker 3: looking for import pamis. It was a variety of other

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Speaker 3: commodities as well. But obviously for us really important time

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Speaker 3: of year. Yeah, we needed those permits, we've got them

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Speaker 3: and we're very happily sending cattle.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I bet it just goes to show you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we talk about politics a lot obviously on

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Speaker 1: this show, and right, you know, we talk about it

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Speaker 1: here in the Northern Territory, but when you look at

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Speaker 1: politics on that larger scale world, like the impact that

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Speaker 1: even something like an election can have and the delays

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Speaker 1: that it can cause to different industries.

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Speaker 3: Oh, to you, Jennet, it is a bit like I

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Speaker 3: mean the Indonesiaan were actually went through kind of a

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Speaker 3: period of caretaker mode, I guess you could say it.

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Speaker 3: And the day the election was done, the incoming president

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Speaker 3: immediately got the permit signed and everybody was able to

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Speaker 3: ship animals in. We've got a huge amount of demanding

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Speaker 3: the supply chain we've been working on. But very happy

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Speaker 2: Well, that is good news. And it's not the only

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Speaker 2: good news.

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Speaker 1: The association celebrating your fortieth anniversary. It's coming up with

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Speaker 1: the annual conference marking the occasion.

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Speaker 2: What have you got planned, Oh, we've.

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Speaker 3: Got a big week. So we've finally been able to

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Speaker 3: go back to our springs. We've been working on getting

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Speaker 3: our conference back down there for the last couple of years,

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Speaker 3: but it's been challenging in the recovery from COVID, So

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Speaker 3: we have it there in the heartland of the beef

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Speaker 3: full a year. It's going to be a really big week.

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Speaker 3: We're very excited about it. But look, I think we're

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Speaker 3: going to have just over a thousand people across all

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Speaker 3: very excited about being back.

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Speaker 1: Down at a Yeah, I bet have you got some I

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Speaker 1: mean there must be some massive achievements as well to

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Speaker 3: There definitely is, and we will be I think I

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Speaker 3: can say we will be giving us some awards to

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Speaker 3: some of the members have been massive contributors to the

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Speaker 3: recognizing some people both during the conference and on the

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Speaker 3: gala dinner night and where Yeah, we've got some people

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Speaker 3: got some people that we need to acknowledge for the

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Speaker 3: enormous contributions they've made wonderful stuff.

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Speaker 2: Can anyone attend or is it really just for your members?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Look, anybody is more than welcome to attend. If you're

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Speaker 3: going to attend, I would highly recommend the gather dinner

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Speaker 3: on the Friday night. It's going to be a terrific

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Speaker 3: one and then the Saturday with having a race day

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Speaker 3: at the racetrack. We've sold a lot of tickets, but

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Speaker 3: if there are those guys in town they want to

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Speaker 3: come out and have a lovely Saturday and enjoying the

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Speaker 3: races in all springs. Please don't grab a ticket, come along,

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Speaker 3: it'll be a great day.

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Speaker 1: Well. Will Evans, NT, Cattleman Association's Chief executive, thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Greatly appreciate it a.

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Speaker 3: Lot of problem. Thank you for having me on, Katie,

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Speaker 3: thank you