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Speaker 1: Mix one four point nine dot com dot atu for

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Speaker 1: all the latest news and information.

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Speaker 2: Now three sixty with Katie Wolf.

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Speaker 1: Everyone is listening Mix one oh four point nine one hundred.

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Speaker 3: It is Tuesday morning and in the studio with us

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Speaker 3: this morning will proudly The Big Issues is proudly brought

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Speaker 3: to you by the Kolano Community Association, an Aboriginal owned

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Speaker 3: and operated, a community lead organization from the top End

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Speaker 3: to Tenant Creek. And they're back at a social distance day.

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Speaker 4: From this book.

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Speaker 2: Someone is out of controus the lift.

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Speaker 3: That's the left, Tom Toler and Damien Hale, and Damien

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Speaker 3: Hale had his mask over his microphone and over his eyes.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what was going on.

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Speaker 5: Well, Tolly's Tolly's carrying a mask that looks as it's

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Speaker 5: never been worn.

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Speaker 2: Because there's no panic in the police come around the

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Speaker 2: exactly right.

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Speaker 1: Just case.

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Speaker 3: Jamie Chalk walks in and he goes on better this on.

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Speaker 5: That's why it carries it. This is no pandemic. He's

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Speaker 5: still very much in Switzerland.

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Speaker 3: Last week on the on the lockdown, I know, Dave,

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Speaker 3: you would not have been loving.

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Speaker 4: I was not happy at all, not happy at all,

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Speaker 4: you know, even my sheds more than five k from

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Speaker 4: the house. I couldn't even go and pot around in

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Speaker 4: the shed.

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Speaker 2: Disgraceful, Well, I was.

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Speaker 5: I feel for those people in that time. I feel

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Speaker 5: for the people in the private sect. Obviously it's very

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Speaker 5: tough on business, incredibly from my perspective, when you're going

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Speaker 5: flat out and going out to communities and doing all

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Speaker 5: that sort of stuff. And I actually enjoyed a little

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Speaker 5: bit of downtime and spent a bit of time with

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Speaker 5: my parents and some time at home.

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Speaker 4: So I did enjoy that when you went out there

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Speaker 4: to my parents, were you're still being paid in your job.

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Speaker 5: I was able to work remotely, so can I can

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Speaker 5: work from home? So, as I said, I did mention

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Speaker 5: him as problem in my preamble with David. I did

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Speaker 5: mention David in my preamble that I feel for businesses

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Speaker 5: that are having to close during that period, but I feel.

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Speaker 4: For people in poverty around the world. I read a

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Speaker 4: story this morning that there's an extra nine million people

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Speaker 4: just in South America alone that have been pushed into poverty.

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Speaker 4: Poverty in their definition is living on less than two

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Speaker 4: dollars a day, so you know, and that's because of

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Speaker 4: the closed down of trade, airlines, tourism. Some of these

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Speaker 4: countries eighty percent of their income comes from foreign tourists,

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Speaker 4: but we don't seem to care about them.

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Speaker 2: And we just need to catch up on vaccinations.

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Speaker 3: So we've just got to make sure I've been vaccinated,

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Speaker 3: You've been vaccine.

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Speaker 2: He's scared of need vaccinated, yet he won't be allowed

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Speaker 2: to go anywhere.

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Speaker 4: I know nothing phases you will days.

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Speaker 5: Dave's dying to get to South America so he can

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Speaker 5: spend his money over there, but he won't get.

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Speaker 2: On a plane.

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Speaker 4: Happens, I'll be on a plane. And if that means

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Speaker 4: getting a needle while I left it too, I can't

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Speaker 4: see where I need to bunch some assential worker out

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Speaker 4: of the lineup.

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Speaker 2: You can't use. There's no lineup anymore.

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Speaker 5: Day if anyone over sixteen can go and get it

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Speaker 5: st using that you.

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Speaker 4: Understand that less than twenty percent of the population have

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Speaker 4: been vaccinated because Scomo's running it.

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Speaker 2: I'll give figures in the territory we.

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Speaker 4: Are going to talk memory.

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Speaker 3: We've got sixteen four percent of territory ins and now

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Speaker 3: fully vaccinated, but we've had more than one hundred thousand

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Speaker 4: You reckon. That would be enough to open up the borders,

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Speaker 4: wouldn't it.

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Speaker 5: Dave thinks it's the delicatessen where you jump the queue

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Speaker 5: to ask for your bacon in front of the other

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Speaker 5: lady that was standing there for ten minutes. You can

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Speaker 5: go and get a vaccine. David, just do it.

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Speaker 2: Be a leader on this. Put that mask on too.

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Speaker 3: We've got him.

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Speaker 2: We've got him.

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Speaker 3: Now listen, let's move along, because there's been a lot

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Speaker 3: the Ikak report came out into the into the Turf Club,

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Speaker 3: into the awarding of that twelve million dollar grant.

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Speaker 1: Get up.

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Speaker 3: Now the latest over well, it would have been Friday

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Speaker 3: for the Darwin Turf Club chairman, Brett Dixon, who's taken

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Speaker 3: the Chief Minister Michael Gunner that his former chief of

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Speaker 3: staff actively encouraged the application for this twelve million dollar

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Speaker 3: stand because it was enthusiastically supported by mister Gunner personally.

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Speaker 3: The letter also alleges one of the reasons why the

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Speaker 3: grand Stand was championed by the former Chief of Staff

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Speaker 3: was because it needed to be completed before the twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty Doh and Cup Carnival to ensure the Gunner government

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Speaker 3: received kudos for that project in the lead up to

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Speaker 3: the twenty twenty Northern Territory election. I'm not sure if

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Speaker 3: you two have had much of the much of an

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Speaker 4: Who took the submission into cabinet?

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Speaker 3: Yet?

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Speaker 4: Alf Leonarde couldn't take it into cabinet, and I have

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Speaker 4: asked her, you know what, minister took it into cabinet?

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Speaker 4: Good question, I have asked, I think that's cabinet.

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Speaker 3: No, that's right, that's right, And so I have asked

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Speaker 3: whether they need to just maybe, you know, release these

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Speaker 3: these documents, the cabinet documents. You understand how that works

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Speaker 3: better than I do, Dave in terms of that decision

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Speaker 3: making process. But whether they do need to just clear

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Speaker 3: why that decision was made.

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Speaker 4: I don't know. That they have to go releasing cabinet documents.

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Speaker 4: That would I don't know what sort of a precedent

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Speaker 4: that would create, but you can certainly find out who

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Speaker 4: marched it into cabinet and start questioning them. If Helth

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Speaker 4: Leonardi wrote it, you know, we ought to know at

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Speaker 4: might suspect it was the Chief Minister, if elf Leanardi

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Speaker 4: the racing you know, who knows. But it's an interesting

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Speaker 4: because you know, I think the whole house of cards

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Speaker 4: I was a bit stunned last week, I got to say,

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Speaker 4: what a wonderful project. Just look at it. You know,

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Speaker 4: it's a wonderful development. It's been great.

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Speaker 4: Missing Beach in in far North Queensland in the same

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Speaker 4: way you go, oh, well, you know, let's just forget

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Speaker 4: that Christopher Skase did it with a whole lot of

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Speaker 4: his involvement. And it's sort of hard to fathom that

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Speaker 4: of nonchalant view. See, it's a wonderful building. Yeah, goodness me.

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Speaker 3: For me right from the get go, and we have,

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Speaker 3: honestly we have. You know, we've had so many people

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Speaker 3: for me, right from the get go, the thing that

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Speaker 3: That week we'd had a code yellow at the hospital.

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Speaker 3: There wasn't enough beds at the hospital. Now the minister

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Speaker 4: I've been aware of a stench coming out of racing

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Speaker 4: I wanted to do an audit on the TRNT. You

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Speaker 4: might recall that the same journalists now they're sort of

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Speaker 4: screaming for more information. At the time was saying that

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Speaker 4: right has the government got to ask private organizations, you know,

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Speaker 4: auditing their books and all of this sort of nonsense.

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Speaker 4: And people accuse me of being anti racing and anti

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Speaker 4: the Thoroughbred. And most notably is the journalist out there

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Speaker 4: how is it possible? But Bett three six five is

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Speaker 4: Why haven't you know, the TCA and others who were

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Speaker 4: banging on about by local why haven't they raised this?

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Speaker 4: You know, for the past five or six years, the

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Speaker 4: and yet he's still the chairman of Thoroughbred raising it.

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Speaker 4: You know, there's questions everywhere. Michael Garner has spent a

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Speaker 4: whole lot of time sort of deflecting those sort of questions.

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Speaker 4: But now there's this sort of pushback I think coming

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Speaker 3: The mud though as well. Hayley Lote, do you think

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Speaker 3: that I mean, do you think that this I don't

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Speaker 3: I think it's going to continue to bubble along for

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Speaker 3: be really interesting to see where it all lands.

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Speaker 2: Well, then at the time.

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Speaker 5: I remember what you just said walking that had happened

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Speaker 5: with in regards to the hospital. And I was always

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Speaker 5: against giving twelve million dollars to the race course only

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Speaker 5: simply because I just thought there was other things that

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Speaker 5: more priorities that the government should spend taxpayers money on.

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Speaker 5: There's no doubt that it is a wonderful facility. And

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Speaker 5: in three weeks time, when all the visitors come up

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Speaker 5: and I'll say, right from silks through to the finish line,

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Speaker 5: there's all this has been done. And for a small

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Speaker 5: place like Darwin, it's, you know, a leading facility in

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Speaker 5: a small town like we have like a lot of

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Speaker 5: our sporting stuff, but with this stuff that you know,

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Speaker 5: for me, it's like what's the next step from an

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Speaker 5: IKAQ because you know, where does this report go? Because

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Speaker 5: if there was unlawful behavior, well surely it should be

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Speaker 5: now with the public prosecutor, rather than just being kicked

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Speaker 5: and Brett Dixon's names have been trash basically. Yeah, so

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Speaker 5: people are drawing opinions on these two guys, and at

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Speaker 4: Election commitments. Well, an election commits, an election commits happen.

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Speaker 4: That's more than the entire Department of Fisheries budget. They're

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Speaker 2: Told of other things that require money as well.

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Speaker 4: Well, there's a whole lot of things that operate. That's seen.

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Speaker 5: Coffers, what about the wildlife park that we've spoken about before,

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Speaker 2: Is a consistency here.

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Speaker 4: Well, I should have been sold off years ago. Ever

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Speaker 1: Dave for you, I.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's dead, no, of course not. They should be

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Speaker 4: contributing to the territory. People think that gambling is good

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Speaker 4: for the for the books, for government. You know that

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Speaker 4: the government is cleaning up on taxes. Well, in the

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Speaker 2: We're going to have to take.

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Speaker 3: We are going to have to take a short break

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Speaker 3: three sixty.

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Speaker 1: With Katie Wolf on Mixed one oh four point nine

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Speaker 3: The big fellas are in the studio for the big issues,

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Speaker 5: Phone's been taken off Dave, So if there's anyone out

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Speaker 5: a few generations ago, but back when dinosaurs had mobile phones.

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Speaker 2: He's just giving rolls.

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Speaker 5: Had to take it off, and we're trying to work

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Speaker 2: We do like stupid last to eleven every day? What

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Speaker 4: I never worked out how to get the sound off,

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Speaker 2: I much preferred you when you had that.

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Speaker 4: It happens when I'm in here. Your other than that,

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Speaker 4: No one wants to name me.

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Speaker 2: Dixon's just as well. No corporate tickets for day this year.

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Speaker 3: He's not getting That's the best place to be, in

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Speaker 2: That's where I enjoy my.

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Speaker 3: Time the most. And I've got to say that several

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Speaker 3: Some time well in saying that, you know, there are

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Speaker 4: The industry, it's a wonderful industry. It's a shame that

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Speaker 3: Hey, let's move along, because there's a couple other things

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Speaker 3: we were discussing who was going to get pre selected,

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Speaker 2: That lockdown was called, it all happened. It all happened.

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Speaker 4: Look, I got to say I thought the COLP did

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Speaker 4: for Nobody has a certainty in politics. You'll face pre

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Speaker 4: hard news. Congratulations to the Center, but the one I'm well,

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Speaker 4: Jaw is the Labor.

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Speaker 3: Your thoughts on it, Tyl, because we are running out

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I don't usually get too wrapped up in the COLP

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Speaker 4: And I couldn't get more holarized views. But I have

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Speaker 5: It gosling like Teena McFarland. You know, they're a proud

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Speaker 4: And he doesn't make headlines, you know.

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Speaker 5: He certainly doesn't make headlines like a couple of the

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Speaker 4: I just actually had to work out where if he's there.

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Speaker 5: I want to get WI looks out about and that's

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Speaker 2: He is out and about will take the fight up.

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Speaker 2: I do want to take you both.

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Speaker 3: The NRL they find Saint George Llawara players three hundred

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Speaker 3: COVID nineteen state home orders after attending and gathering at

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Speaker 4: The curtain twitches are at it again.

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Speaker 2: The curtain twitches.

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Speaker 4: People sitting there looking through their curtains, dabbing off, going

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Speaker 2: A few of them have.

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Speaker 5: Been a few of them have been hiding on the

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Speaker 3: A real coach, I've got to say, I look at that.

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Speaker 2: And I think you're jeopardizing.

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Speaker 5: Like you get if any of those guys were to

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Speaker 5: they could mortgage to give money to the clubs in Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: Like these guys are just idiots and have a good time.

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Speaker 5: To stick to what you're doing, because your whole industry

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Speaker 5: relies on you to do the right thing. And as

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Speaker 5: I said, they go hiding on Saturdays, the dragons and

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Speaker 5: they go hiding on Saturday nights as well.

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Speaker 4: Football players aren't there to make government brain surgeons, to

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Speaker 4: hit it up as hard as they can and make.

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Speaker 3: Come from a family football football the coach coach.

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Speaker 4: Of time.

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Speaker 3: Tell you what is bloody scary.

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Speaker 5: But you also look at this way to Ktie that

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Speaker 5: the warriors are here living in a stretch away from

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Speaker 5: like they've got their immediate family, but they're making sacrifices.

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Speaker 5: These guys can't even just stick to the program, you know,

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Speaker 5: and it just it beggars belief. I just think you, Yeah,

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Speaker 5: you're in a fool's paradise. You're playing an elite sport.

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Speaker 2: You're getting paid for six hundred k a year.

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Speaker 3: You just follow the rules, all right. We're gonna have

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Speaker 3: to leave it there. Dave Tolder, Damien Hall, always great

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Speaker 3: to have you both in the studios.

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Speaker 2: Talk to you soon.

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Speaker 3: You are listening to Mix one O four point nine

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Speaker 3: three sixty