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Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf thanks to Joyce Main, Dowen

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Speaker 1: homes On and Stuart Highway Beromart.

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Speaker 2: Joining us in the studio right now is Matt Cunningham

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Speaker 2: from Sky News. Good morning to you, Matt.

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Speaker 1: Get a will be mate.

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Speaker 2: You were actually out at the airport in the early

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Speaker 2: hours of this morning having a chat with some of

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Speaker 2: those passengers as they not the passengers, sorry, the family

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Speaker 2: members of passengers as they arrived or as they didn't

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Speaker 2: quite get into the territory. It is probably a better

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Speaker 2: way of saying it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. There are a few fairly frustrated in

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Speaker 1: some cases, i'd say angry people who were out at

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Speaker 1: the airport this morning. One guy you played a grab

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Speaker 1: from before, and you can understand his frustration because his

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Speaker 1: wife and two kids who hasn't seen for three and

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Speaker 1: a half weeks and they'd actually been in South Australia

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Speaker 1: and then gone to stay for one night on the

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Speaker 1: way home with her mother in Diamond Creek, which is

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Speaker 1: like way out of town. If you had to drive

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Speaker 1: at eight o'clock in the morning from Diamond Creek to

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Speaker 1: the center of Melbourne and take two and a half

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Speaker 1: hours anyway, you know he is as you heard him say,

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Speaker 1: you know, it was a situation where you know, she

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Speaker 1: had been stuck and you know, those the three of

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Speaker 1: them were going out to Howard Springs and he saw

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Speaker 1: his kids and basically saw his kids tired and screaming

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Speaker 1: and upset, you know, for a minute, and then and

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Speaker 1: then in they went. There's another woman I spoke to

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Speaker 1: who she was waiting. She was up here for a

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Speaker 1: conference and her family was coming up to join her

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Speaker 1: for a holiday. And she seemed really confused about what

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Speaker 1: was going on as well. And the reason for her

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Speaker 1: confusion was she'd been told to check the anti government

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Speaker 1: coronavirus website, and she was saying she was checking in

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Speaker 1: every fifteen minutes and wasn't getting the updated information. And

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Speaker 1: in the end she was asking me, you know, what

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Speaker 1: was going on? And I sort of told her, and

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Speaker 1: she said where can I find that? And I had

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Speaker 1: to point her to Facebook, to the post from anti health,

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Speaker 1: But she says, I'm from Victoria. I'm not following anti

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Speaker 1: health on Facebook.

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Speaker 2: But also I don't think that that's an appropriate way

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Speaker 2: for people to have to get there and information. I

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Speaker 2: think that it should actually be up on the Coronavirus website,

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Speaker 2: and it should be getting distributed out to the media.

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Speaker 2: I know at that time of the night it's going

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Speaker 2: to be you're going to be hard pressed to get

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Speaker 2: it on live radio. But I do think there needs

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Speaker 2: to be some consistency with that messaging so that people

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Speaker 2: who are impacted know where they're able to get the information.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I also think it would help. Now, there

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Speaker 1: were a couple of police officers there who were doing

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Speaker 1: a really good job and were really consider it with

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Speaker 1: the people who were quite upset, but they had another

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Speaker 1: job to do, you know. Their job was to make

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Speaker 1: sure people went to the right place and make sure

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Speaker 1: security was in place. You know, I think it would

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Speaker 1: help in that situation if there's someone from NT Health

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Speaker 1: or the anti government who's actually at the airport, because

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of people rocking up there to

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Speaker 1: meet loved ones who were really confused about what was

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Speaker 1: going on and they just needed someone there to give

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Speaker 1: them some certainty about the situation. Someone to tell this

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Speaker 1: guy whether Diamond Kreek is in the Greater Melbourne area

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Speaker 1: or not instead of him trying to find it on

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Speaker 1: a map on a website.

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Speaker 2: But when you go back to the Chief Finister said

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Speaker 2: a little bit earlier on the show that you know

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Speaker 2: that decision was probably delayed by two hours because he

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Speaker 2: was on a flight from Allie Springs and his deputy

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Speaker 2: was also somewhere else. I think that that's really sort

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Speaker 2: of cold comfort to a lot of people who are

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Speaker 2: now embroiled into this situation around one hundred people.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and you know, good on interfessing up

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Speaker 1: and saying that. I wonder why I've wondered the whole

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Speaker 1: way through Wolf why in these situations they don't Because

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Speaker 1: we're talking about managing risk and levels of risk, and

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Speaker 1: as far as I say, the level of risk between

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Speaker 1: letting that flight in as opposed to the one that

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Speaker 1: arrived a few hours earlier, the difference is minuscule, right,

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Speaker 1: So I don't and I know you have to draw

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Speaker 1: the line somewhere. I just don't understand why so often

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Speaker 1: the line has been drawn at a point where a

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Speaker 1: flight is either in the air or about to take off,

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Speaker 1: as in this case. Now you know we heard the

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Speaker 1: chief ministers stay there, that the people on these fl

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Speaker 1: lights were told by the airlines and given the opportunity.

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Speaker 1: My understanding isn't in one case, they are actually on

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Speaker 1: the tarmac, so they'd already boarded the plane. They were

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Speaker 1: on the tarmac, and that's when the decision was made exactly.

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Speaker 1: And I'm also told that then I was told about

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Speaker 1: eight people, but I mean from what Gunner says, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's more than two hundred people who have decided not

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Speaker 1: to come. So most of those were on the subsequent

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Speaker 1: jet flight that was leaving a bit later.

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Speaker 2: But we are going to have to get ready to

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Speaker 2: wrap up, but just very quickly. The footy was obviously

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Speaker 2: due to happen this weekend. The Chief Minister hasn't entirely

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Speaker 2: ruled out or hasn't said that that is entirely canceled

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Speaker 2: at this point in time. He sounds like he's leaving

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Speaker 2: a bit of a door open there. What do you

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Speaker 2: reckon's going on?

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Speaker 1: Look, I found those comments really interesting because everything we've

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Speaker 1: been told last night and today was that the game

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Speaker 1: had been canceled. Everything that come out of the AFL,

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Speaker 1: you know, the game was off. And he's saying that

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Speaker 1: they're having sort of negotiation today about whether Hawthorne might

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Speaker 1: be able to charter a flight and if they put

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Speaker 1: together their plan that the Chow ticks off that there

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Speaker 1: could be still a game go ahead. Reading between the lines, though,

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Speaker 1: I get the impression that the Chief Ministers and maybe

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Speaker 1: i'm this is this might be more hope over reality.

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Speaker 1: But let me go with it that the government is

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Speaker 1: trying to negotiate with the AFL and be the best

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Speaker 1: possible client it can be, because you know, there's a

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Speaker 1: real possibility we'll figure that if there's a lockdown in

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Speaker 1: Melbourne that goes for a week or a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: The Richmond Essendon Dreamtime game was slated for next Saturday

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Speaker 1: night at the MCG. If they can't play that in

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Speaker 1: front of a crowd in Melbourne, I think there would

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Speaker 1: potentially be the option if a plan was put in

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Speaker 1: place for that game to be shifted up here and

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Speaker 1: played again at Marara. And we know what a massive

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Speaker 1: occasion it was last year when you're only allowed five

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Speaker 1: and a half thousand people at Too Stadium, so it

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Speaker 1: could be imagining with fifteen thousand.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right. Well, Matt Cunningham from Sky News, so

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Speaker 2: much we could talk about, we better leave it there, though,

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Speaker 2: always good to catch up. Thanks than thanks for the

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Speaker 2: chat this morning. We'll talk to you soon. You are

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