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Speaker 1: You'll recognize the voice of my next guest because you're

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Speaker 1: probably hear him on the drive home with Andrew. Long

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Speaker 1: time fish. Oh. Jason Rogers joins me on the line

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Speaker 1: right now. Good morning, Jason, Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 2: Here you go.

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Speaker 1: You're really good mate.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Lots of discussion this morning about whether you know whether

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Speaker 1: there should be a jetty at Dudley Point. What do

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Speaker 1: you think?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, I'm always a supporter of anything fishing, because

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Speaker 2: I've been fishing on my life. I'm not sold on it.

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Speaker 2: What's that you know? I'm not sold on it. I

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Speaker 2: don't think it's I think there's plenty of stuff that's

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Speaker 2: sort of half done, half cooked around the place. We've

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Speaker 2: got all these boat ramps that are half fixed, half done.

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Speaker 2: We've got Mike withf Jerty, which is sort of they

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Speaker 2: struggle to maintain infrastructure there. I've actually worked on it

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Speaker 2: as well, and it's sort of always just getting patched up.

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Speaker 2: It's never getting total refurbishment or refixing. It's always sort

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Speaker 2: of half condemned, maybe improve or or you know, fix

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Speaker 2: some of the stuff that we've half done, like some

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Speaker 2: of the boat ramps we've got in place, like Shady

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Speaker 2: Camp this year, for instance, a runoff. They spent big

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Speaker 2: money building a raid out to Point Stewart and we've

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Speaker 2: got a good boat ramp a shady camp and you

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Speaker 2: couldn't get to the boat ramp of Shady Camp because

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Speaker 2: they built the road out to Point Stewart and the

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Speaker 2: gate was locked. You know, like this is we seem

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Speaker 2: to be spending money on things that we've sort of

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Speaker 2: can't We've got stuff in place and we can't use

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Speaker 2: it all the time because it's half broken or it's

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Speaker 2: half fixed. Like there's the east arm boat ramp. How

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Speaker 2: long has that been broken for? You know it maybe

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Speaker 2: put a fishing structure there, like a rock grain a

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Speaker 2: wall and protect that. It served to protect the boat

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Speaker 2: ramp there from all weather and all sorts of things.

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Speaker 2: Like I think when you really need to look at

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Speaker 2: where we spend this money, because there's not a lot

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Speaker 2: of it to go around, and we really need to

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Speaker 2: spend it properly. And like if you get a jetty

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Speaker 2: out there, there's a few things out there. It's a

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Speaker 2: marine cont marine reserve, a small fish. You know, there's

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Speaker 2: only one or two of them in the harbor, And

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Speaker 2: why are we going to build JETI where people are

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Speaker 2: going to go and fish and catch these small fish

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Speaker 2: off the jetty and there's a sewerage outlet just next

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Speaker 2: to it. You've got to eat Coyle like concerns, you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, so there's actually so there is a sewage

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Speaker 1: out let nearby to where where they're talking about.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, at least point. I went out there

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Speaker 2: last week, so I was talking to Crystal about it.

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Speaker 2: When I was talking to Andrew. I actually went out

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Speaker 2: and filmed it and you can see the sewerage pumping

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Speaker 2: out of it. When I got out of the of

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Speaker 2: the the car at the Rock Hitters club to have

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Speaker 2: a look at it, I got an instant headache from

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Speaker 2: the smell. It was just, you know, I reckon Kenny

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Speaker 2: would have cringed.

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Speaker 1: Right where your mate? So was that more? Is that

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Speaker 1: more sort of around towards the Rock Hitters or whereabout

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Speaker 1: Steve mate?

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Speaker 2: Yeah it is, it's around towards the Rock Hitters. But

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Speaker 2: the swim and I think you're going to have heavy

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Speaker 2: metals in that area. I think some of the fish

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Speaker 2: There's potential harm there. I don't know if there's ever

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Speaker 2: been any studies on the things I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: like benefits of fishing for sure, but maybe we can

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Speaker 2: look at it a better way. And you know, who's

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Speaker 2: who's come up with this idea? Where's it come from?

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Speaker 2: How's it you know, has it been costed, has it

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Speaker 2: been planned, has it been you know, yeah, plan maintenance

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Speaker 2: looked at. It's just I think if we put something

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Speaker 2: and of the operation like the Big Gates class.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, that's something that's been raised with us this morning,

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Speaker 1: people saying is it going to be open later at night?

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Speaker 1: I suppose what the government's asking for at the moment though,

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, well the Mandora one stuff just starting to

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Speaker 2: work on now, and then I know the planning that

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Speaker 2: went into place probably eight nine, ten years ago. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so you know this this thing isn't going to happen

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Speaker 2: and it's going to cost a lot of money to

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Speaker 2: get to that stage. Yeah, I think in this, in

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Speaker 2: this sort of climate and the way things are, let's

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Speaker 2: have some immediate benefits like fish stocking Darling Harbor. How

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Speaker 2: good would it be to stock you know, one hundreds

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Speaker 2: of thousands of barren monday in the harbor and that

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Speaker 2: anyone can walk to anywhere on the beach or for

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Speaker 2: sure and catch a barro. You know, if you had

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Speaker 2: the plentiful supply of fish in the harbor that anyone

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Speaker 2: could go and get a barre, how good would that be?

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Speaker 2: That's going to be overwhelming, you know, benefits for the economy, hotels, businesses,

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Speaker 2: all the people that have been coming up here to

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Speaker 2: just catch a barrow off the bank.

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Speaker 1: So, Jason, before I let you go, you touched on

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Speaker 1: this just a moment ago about the East arm boat ramp.

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Speaker 1: So is there repairs that need to happen out there

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Speaker 1: that still haven't happened, Because Robert called in to say

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Speaker 1: that there were repairs to the Eastern boat ramp, that

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Speaker 1: a man in his seventies had sustained some arm injuries

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Speaker 1: out there about six months ago, adding that he had

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Speaker 1: also injured himself as well at that boat ramp about

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Speaker 1: two months ago.

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Speaker 2: That's right, and it hasn't been fixed for last year.

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Speaker 2: That's why Dina Beach bat ramp has such overflow because

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Speaker 2: people don't want to go and use that bat ramp.

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Speaker 2: There's only certain tides they can use it on the

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Speaker 2: bigger tides that once that water gets out a bit.

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Speaker 2: And it's actually got better title access than Dina Beach,

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Speaker 2: so I don't know what. And the car parking out

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Speaker 2: there is unreal. The car parking in Dinah Beach. It's

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Speaker 2: encroaching on local residents and businesses because people everyone's blocking

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Speaker 2: there to use it because the other ones sort of

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Speaker 2: it's usable, but unusable that a lot of the time,

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Speaker 2: and it's just dangerous. I've fallen over there and hurt myself.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, I'm always launching bats. I've done a lot

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Speaker 2: of bait launching and I've gone over there and gone baying,

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Speaker 2: went down. There's only luck that I didn't hurt myself

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Speaker 2: even more. But it's definitely very dangerous, and you know,

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Speaker 2: like there's sort of things that probably need to be

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Speaker 2: looked at before we start looking at jetties. I think,

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Speaker 2: you know, I'd love to be able to get on

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Speaker 2: the process, get on the table of some of these

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Speaker 2: talks because I've got lots of ideas. I'm good at ideas,

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Speaker 2: but I'm not so good at putting things in place.

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Speaker 2: No ideas to come.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and look, that's I suppose that's the thing,

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Speaker 1: isn't it? You know, like it's it is. It's quite

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Speaker 1: easy to think of just different ideas, but finding the

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Speaker 1: money for it as well, and making sure that it

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Speaker 1: is done properly, I think, is the other point that

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Speaker 1: is definitely worth making. Jason. Yeah, mate, I really appreciate

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Speaker 1: you having a chat with us this morning. No doubt

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to you again soon.

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Speaker 2: We'll be in there this week to talk to Andrews.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like a plan. It sounds like a plan. Good

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Speaker 1: on you, Jason, Thanks so much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you