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Speaker 1: Well, last week, if you're listening to the show, I

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Speaker 1: spoke to the member for Blaine, Matt Curl, after he

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Speaker 1: went to visit seventy one year old Trevor Miller in hospital,

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Speaker 1: who was seriously injured in a violent home invasion. Two

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Speaker 1: boys aged thirteen and fourteen allegedly broke into Trevor's woodrof home.

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Speaker 1: They attacked him with a machete and then stole his car.

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Speaker 1: Last Wednesday, Matt Curl said that Trevor had sustained multiple

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Speaker 1: cuts to his arms and legs, some down to the bone,

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Speaker 1: and didn't shake his hand upon leaving because he wasn't

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Speaker 1: sure if he still had hands. That is what Trevor

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Speaker 1: had said to Matt Now. He also told us that

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Speaker 1: Trevor thought that his life was over until a neighbor

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Speaker 1: came to his rescue. We know that Trevor is a

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Speaker 1: massive part of the local community. He's also involved in

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Speaker 1: local Seniors. The group out there and joining me on

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Speaker 1: the line is one of his friends. City of Palmerston

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Speaker 1: Counselor Dannielle Everly, Good morning, Danny.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Danny. You went to see Trevor yesterday. How's he going Katie.

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Speaker 2: I didn't end up actually going to see him. The

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Speaker 2: reason that I didn't is because he'd still been in

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Speaker 2: the intensive care area and he's got a number of

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Speaker 2: people that are a lot closer than I am that

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Speaker 2: are going up every day, and so I'm in daily

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Speaker 2: contact with them to check in on him, And obviously

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Speaker 2: I don't want to overcrowd his room or be a

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Speaker 2: little bit overwhelming when he is heavily sedated and the like.

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Speaker 2: So he knows we're he knows we're all caring about him.

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Speaker 2: This morning, I've spoken to two people again and he

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Speaker 2: is he's feeling a lot better this morning he was

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Speaker 2: talking to them, and we're very hopeful that it won't

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Speaker 2: be long before he's moved to a ward.

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Speaker 1: Danny, I understand on top of those serious cuts that

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Speaker 1: he's also got a number of broken bones and is

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Speaker 1: being kept sedated to help his body recover. Is that

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Speaker 1: the case, Well.

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Speaker 2: It's an interesting because he's got so with the cuts

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Speaker 2: and how it's all been done. He's had to have

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Speaker 2: surgery to reattach so the muscles in his legs and

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Speaker 2: the like, So he is from a rehab perspective, he's

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Speaker 2: got a long road ahead of him. He will need

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Speaker 2: to learn how to walk again, he will need to

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Speaker 2: learn how to use his hands again. You know, this

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Speaker 2: is this is a significant mental exercise I think for

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Speaker 2: Trevor and something from a resilience perspective that none of

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Speaker 2: us really have to be faced with in our lives.

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Speaker 2: Because he's a very proud man. He's a still or

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Speaker 2: in the community's he's an activist gentleman. And you know,

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Speaker 2: being stuck in a in a bed and in a

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Speaker 2: know this, this rehab that he's got ahead of him,

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Speaker 2: is not going to be easy. As I said, learning

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Speaker 2: to walk again, learning to use his hands again.

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Speaker 1: I'm struggling to even wrap my head around these injuries,

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Speaker 1: right like I'm struggling to wrap my head around a

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Speaker 1: home invasion turning into somebody having to learn to walk again.

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Speaker 1: Like it is unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Katie. And you know, from a me looking

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Speaker 2: at it, I go, this wasn't just a home invasion.

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Speaker 2: This is an attempted murder, you know. With what's occurred,

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Speaker 2: This is this is not this is not normal. We've

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Speaker 2: got We've got such a non normal situation occurring across

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Speaker 2: the territory and this is just the latest, well sorry,

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Speaker 2: the latest. There's obviously the tourists that we've just had

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Speaker 2: attacked in Alice as well. And I'm I'm really really

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Speaker 2: angry that with these situations, Katie was, it's turning into

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Speaker 2: a political football match. You know that we're just have

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Speaker 2: and you know, the situation is not getting any better.

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Speaker 2: And really I'd love to see some bipartisan approach and

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Speaker 2: you know, let's put our big boy pants on everybody

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Speaker 2: This isn't this isn't a single minded approach. This isn't

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Speaker 1: Look something that the acting Chief Minister, Jared Mayley revealed

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Speaker 1: which again blows my mind. Is one of these alleged

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Speaker 1: this may not be the right move. Like what needs

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Speaker 2: Yeah, do you know what, Katie, I'd like to see

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Speaker 2: the judge that made that decision go in and did it, Trevor.

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Speaker 1: Good call, good call, you know, Nannie.

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Speaker 2: And actually see what this poor man is now left

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Speaker 2: you know, really good friends with him so over twenty years.

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Speaker 2: So they're at the hospital every day, and you know this,

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Speaker 2: it takes it out of everybody. You know, it's not

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Speaker 2: just you know, the one person. And we've got a

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm very very thankful for everyone that's reaching

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Speaker 2: out to you know, to Mark from the Palmeston Litchfield

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Speaker 2: every day. Maria is there as well. You know, there's,

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Speaker 2: like I said, there's that little group that you know,

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Speaker 2: like I do encourage you know that we leave it

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Speaker 2: to those closest to him, because also we don't want

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Speaker 2: pneumonia while he's been in there as well, so you know,

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Speaker 2: let's make sure that he's been given every possible chance

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Speaker 2: that's well, and that's the thing too, you know, like

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Speaker 2: I said, he's a very proud man, Katie, and he

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Speaker 1: Home, Danny. Look out. My heart goes out to him,

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Speaker 1: my love, my prayers go to him because I just

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Speaker 1: think it's appalling what's happened. And and Donny, before I

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Speaker 1: But before I let you go, I understand that there's

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Speaker 1: been a working bee organized to support Trevor. What like,

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Speaker 1: what can people do to try and.

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Speaker 2: Help people, Katie, that's still being finalized. So yeah, and

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Speaker 2: just with yeah, and so once like, when there is

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Speaker 2: some information that we can share, I'll let you know,

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Speaker 2: because again I want to make sure that Trevor's because

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Speaker 2: now that he is he's you know, in good spirits

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Speaker 2: and speaking today, you know, those closest to him will

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Speaker 2: have a chat about what he's like done, you know,

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Speaker 2: so that we make sure that you know, no one

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Speaker 2: oversteps or anything like that, because we want to make

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Speaker 2: sure that it's for him and in his best interest.

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Speaker 2: So once I've got more information, I'm more than happy

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Speaker 2: to share that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well please do Danny Eavely Palmerston Counselor. Really really

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Speaker 1: appreciate your time this morning. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: having a chat with us.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, Katie, appreciate it