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Speaker 1: Hello, Katie Wolf and three point sixty online at Mix

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Speaker 1: one O four nine dot com. The next two weeks

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Speaker 1: are going to be massive.

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Speaker 2: As Parliament sits today, the Northern Territory Budget's going to

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Speaker 2: be handed down and territorians are set to get a

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Speaker 2: better idea of exactly where we're placed when it comes

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Speaker 2: to the level of debt and how it's going to

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Speaker 2: be managed. Now joining me on the line is the

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Speaker 2: Health Minister and Leader of Government Business, Natasha Files.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning, Katie, Good morning listening now, Minister.

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Speaker 2: I'm not anticipating that you're going to reveal any detail

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Speaker 2: of that budget ahead of the Chief Minister doing that

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Speaker 2: at eleven o'clock, but what is the process this morning?

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Speaker 2: How long does it take for that budget to be

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Speaker 2: handed down?

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Speaker 3: Yes, Katie, I'll leave all for the Treasurer in Chief

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Speaker 3: Minister to reveal at eleven am this morning. It might

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Speaker 3: the secret, but we have a big week in parliament, Katie.

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Speaker 3: The budget. The Parliament will will go to the budget

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Speaker 3: at eleven am no matter what is being debated, and

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Speaker 3: the Chief Minister will deliver the Territories budget. We have

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Speaker 3: kept people say through COVID and so now we need

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Speaker 3: to really focus on that economic rebuilding. And so he

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Speaker 3: will outline the details in that budget at eleven am.

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Speaker 3: Then the Parliament will adjourn until question time, which will

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Speaker 3: be a little bit later too thirty it's a tradition,

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Speaker 3: we've also got a number of other important bills, Katie.

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Speaker 3: We will be bringing forward a bill around youth justice failed,

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Speaker 3: so the Police Minister will be introducing that.

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Speaker 2: So they also got it's sorry, minister is that today.

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Speaker 3: She will be introducing that bill today and she'll be

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Speaker 3: outlining the government's plans. She'll be giving notice, i should say,

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Speaker 3: today and introducing that tomorrow. So that's the technical process

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Speaker 3: for your listeners. You give notice of what you're going

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Speaker 3: to do tomorrow and then provide the detail. We've also

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Speaker 3: important Land Title amendment bill along with a number of

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Speaker 3: other bills. So certainly busy fortnite. Two weeks of.

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Speaker 2: Parliamentary fitting it certainly sounds like it now as you've

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Speaker 2: incredibly important to a lot of Territorians is that one

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Speaker 2: which is in the Chief Minister's words, I will use

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Speaker 2: from a pressure release that it issued at the time

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Speaker 2: when he announced these changes would come into play, he

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Speaker 2: said that they'd cut crime, keep the community safe and

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Speaker 2: will include tougher than ever consequences for breach of bail.

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Speaker 2: This means if a young person commits a serious breach

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Speaker 2: while on bail, their bail will be automatically revoked and

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Speaker 2: they'll be taken into custody. Minister, is this legislation going

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Speaker 2: to be passed on urgency?

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Speaker 3: Yes, the Government will be seeking the urgency of the

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Speaker 2: Okay, So that had been quite a contentious thing that

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Speaker 2: if would happen. So you can confirm for us this

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Speaker 2: morning it is going to pass on urgency.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So the Police Minister will provide that bill to

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Speaker 3: that so it will pass this parliamentary sittings period, it

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Speaker 1: The opposition see that legislation.

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Speaker 3: So the bill will be introduced tomorrow and then we'll

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Speaker 3: They'll be able to see that technical detail that is

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Speaker 2: So sorry, minister, can you just go back to something

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Speaker 2: be passing on urgency, and then I missed that last

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Speaker 3: So Katie, it's not that we will simply pass the

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Speaker 3: it's considered urgent. And so we won't be leaving this

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Speaker 2: Okay, So it is going to go through in the

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Speaker 3: So, Katie, it's incredibly complex and you.

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Speaker 2: We seem to have lost the minister there. Hopefully we

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Speaker 2: are able to hear her again. Minister Files, are you

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Speaker 2: just see if my producer Ronnie is able to get

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Speaker 1: Minister, can you hear me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure what happens there, Katie. Sorry, So

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Speaker 3: what I was saying with the legislation is, this is

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Speaker 3: those long term plans in place, but we need to

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Speaker 3: help these people. But also, you know, the community is

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Speaker 3: incredibly frustrated by this reoffending and so that's specifically what

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're spot on.

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Speaker 2: The community is incredibly frustrated, so are we. You know,

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Speaker 2: the Chief Minister had said in that pressure relation, as

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Speaker 2: Are we going to see that change come into play

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Speaker 3: So the Minister will introduce the legislation to Marrow Katie,

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Speaker 3: and I'm sure she'll be available to talk through that

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Speaker 2: For that now, Minister, as I understand it, ABC News

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Speaker 1: Have you seen that letter?

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Speaker 3: I haven't seen. That the Labor Party has a number

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Speaker 2: Has it been a tough juggle here and is it

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Speaker 2: going to continue to be a tough juggle with this

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Speaker 2: you've certainly got some pretty strong voices who are objecting

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Speaker 3: It's always difficult, Katie, and it's always we want to

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Speaker 3: we have to make sure that We're always agile with legislation,

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Speaker 3: so that's why we continually update legislation. But we've heard

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Speaker 3: continue to work in this space across a number of areas.

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Speaker 2: All right, Minister, let's move on to your health portfolio

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Speaker 2: and that transition out at Howard Springs, Well, it happened

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Speaker 1: How many new staff started out there yesterday.

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Speaker 3: So Katie, yesterday was the formal transition. So that means

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Speaker 3: whilst making sure we still keep those high clinical standards

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Speaker 2: The Opposition leader is again questioning while the OZMAT team's

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Speaker 2: untested single governance model is what she's called it. Headed

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Speaker 2: by the Northern Territory Police Commissioner Lea Finocchiaro, has said

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Speaker 2: be indulging the Chief Minister's inflated sense of importance, she says,

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Speaker 3: So the ozmat team is still there, Katie, just the

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Speaker 1: So that whole ozmat team is still out there.

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Speaker 3: So the Ozmat team are still on site. There's no

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Speaker 3: Some of those Ozmat staff will come across and work

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Speaker 3: and we've done that through the Medical Advisory Group, which

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Speaker 3: those highest standards of infection control.

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Speaker 3: So the telehealth model is staying and we've shifted across

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Speaker 3: monitoring that was done through those bands that they were using,

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Speaker 3: the arm bands, it has been successful in some parts.

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Speaker 3: They're not compulsory that people have to wear them, and

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Speaker 3: they have provided some important information. I would have to

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Speaker 3: check the details around whether that would continue. But the

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Speaker 3: continue to keep the community safe as well as caring

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Speaker 2: All right, Minister, we're fast running out of time. But

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Speaker 2: what do you think of the Federal government delaying the

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Speaker 2: start sooner rather than later.

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Speaker 3: of their own, and they're desperate to get back home.

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Speaker 3: At the same time, we saw such high rates of infectivity,

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Speaker 3: so we'll work with the Commonwealth Government. The case numbers, Katie,

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Speaker 3: I should update Territory have come down from over fifty

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Speaker 3: to thirty five as of yesterday, thirty one repatriated Australians

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Speaker 3: and five US Marines. They're being cared for at Howard Springs.

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Speaker 3: So we're working with our health professionals and the Commonwealth

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Speaker 3: Government to work out when it would be best to

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Speaker 3: start those flights, and also noting the measures that the

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Speaker 3: Commonwealth have said they'll put in place over in India

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Speaker 3: so that we can try and get these people home.

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Speaker 3: But our community safety absolutely comes first.

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Speaker 2: Minister A very quick listener question. It says, Katie, can

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Speaker 2: you please ask the Health minister is it two A

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Speaker 2: or two B day for the over fifties for the

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Speaker 3: So Katie, one A have been vaccinated. That's our frontline workers.

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Speaker 3: One B was a second trunch. My understanding is as

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Speaker 3: of today people over fifty come into one BEE so

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Speaker 3: they're eligible for that astrozonic vaccination. That is eligible presently

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Speaker 3: through the two respiratory clinics and Ola Springs and the

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Speaker 3: one in Darwin. But a number of GP services have

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Speaker 3: put their hands up to roll that out. It's scheduled

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Speaker 3: to roll out in about a fortnight with the GP services,

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Speaker 3: but I understand some are ready to go a little

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Speaker 3: bit earlier. So people should go to the Commonwealth Government

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Speaker 3: Department of Health web page, put in their coronavirus vaccine information,

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Speaker 3: their age, their underlying health issues. It will put them

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Speaker 3: into a category and provide them with a list where

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Speaker 3: they can make a booking. So really important, there's more vaccination.

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Speaker 3: Astra Zeneker is safe, effective, it's been rigorously tested and

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Speaker 3: the older you get, unfortunately, the higher the risk of

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Speaker 3: COVID if it was to come into the community and

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Speaker 3: your personal impact, so please get vaccinated.

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Speaker 2: Health Minister Natasha Files will leave it there, and also

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Speaker 2: Leader of Government Business.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your time today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you