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Speaker 1: Good morning, Hailey.

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Speaker 2: Wolfe. How are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm good, Wite, it has it's been a long while.

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Speaker 2: How you been Yeah, I've been good. I'm outing Warrem

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Speaker 2: So just trying to look around and advertise that job.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Now. One of the other things that you've

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Speaker 2: Of them, just relied basically on people in Darwin and

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Speaker 2: And so next minute Les's rings me and says, look,

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Speaker 1: I know that he's been out, you know, he'd spoken

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Speaker 2: There is a connection between all these different parts of Australia.

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Speaker 1: Oh good stuff, Well, Hailey, I know that it's sort

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Speaker 1: Is it best for them to try and just get

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Speaker 1: Well, Damien Hale, it is good to catch up with

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Speaker 1: Group they'll all be thoroughly enjoying this chat, no doubt

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Speaker 4: Oh well, Damian Hale, it is good to catch up

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Speaker 1: That's usually where I run into you.

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Speaker 2: You probably will walk in. I don't know what Tolner

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Speaker 3: Report to the NC police.

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Speaker 2: He'll be a great man.

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Speaker 1: He'll be so pleased to hear this. How you've mentioned

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Speaker 3: Isn't it good to be missed?

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Speaker 2: It is somebody actually was thinking about me and Dave Tuner.

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Speaker 3: Do you know what I hear that?

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Speaker 1: I've had a few people say to me, you know,

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Speaker 2: Well I'm glad we weren't on this year.

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Speaker 3: With all the stuff that's.

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Speaker 2: it could have been out of.

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Speaker 1: Control, no doubt. But hey, the elections coming up next year.

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Speaker 2: Hailey, Well, Wolfie, there was some derogatory comments have already

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Speaker 3: That's why I'm suddenly.

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Speaker 2: Gotten, suddenly got interested in being in the limelight. He's

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Speaker 2: going to run for a seat again, in no way.

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Speaker 3: Want no, I'm done.

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Speaker 2: I'm done on the giant from politics ruling it out.

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Speaker 2: I say to people, just you know, pick who you

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Speaker 2: thinks best and vote labor. That's all I've matter, control

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to get Dave on in a second

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Speaker 1: to make this even.

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Speaker 3: You have to make it fair.

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Speaker 2: Otherwise you left the opposition leader bringing you say you

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Speaker 2: let Hal get on and say that exactly.

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Speaker 1: Oh goodness, mate, Well, Damien Haile, good to catch up

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Speaker 2: It's good on you. I see you