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Speaker 1: In the studio this morning for the big issues we've got.

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Speaker 1: Dave Tolna, Good morning to you. Dave.

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Speaker 2: Great to be with you. Cadie.

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Speaker 1: You turn your alarm off this morning. Let's see if

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Speaker 1: it works. Damian Hale, good morning to you. Let me

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Speaker 1: just make sure I've got your microphone on. Try it again.

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Speaker 3: Good morning. Oh some people probably like it to stay off,

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Speaker 3: but the morning. Good morning, Wolfe. How are you going?

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Speaker 1: Great to have you both in this.

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Speaker 4: Already on fire.

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Speaker 1: For those listening wondering what Dave is talking about, I've

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Speaker 1: got a bottle of gin out there from Willing Distillery

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Speaker 1: that they bought him a few weeks ago when the

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Speaker 1: distillery opened and Dave just had a quick drink.

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Speaker 2: Well I saw it made him David Willing produces and stuff.

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Speaker 2: I haven't ever known that he was a dog maker

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Speaker 2: and had just had to have a quick taste.

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Speaker 1: So I tell you what if you and if you're

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Speaker 1: all thinking that Dave's you're not sure what's going to

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Speaker 1: what he's going to say every week, well wait.

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Speaker 4: Now let's see what happens.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I do want to talk to you both again. Last

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Speaker 1: week when you're on we talked quite extensively about the

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Speaker 1: situation with the EYECAC report into the DAR and Turf Club. Now,

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Speaker 1: just to keep you up to date, and I know

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Speaker 1: that you probably both know what's going on anyway, but

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Speaker 1: it is definitely an issue which is not going away.

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Speaker 1: The opposition leader Leofanocchiaro was on the show yesterday and

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Speaker 1: said that Michael Gunner has repeatedly stated that he's the

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Speaker 1: chief of Sorry, he's the chair of Cabinet and takes responsibility.

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Speaker 1: These words are hollow garbage. She says, he is not

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Speaker 1: taking responsibility. He's hiding behind cabinet confidentiality to avoid taking

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Speaker 1: responsibility for his dodgy deal. Now, she reckons that the

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Speaker 1: government should just release the Treasury analysis, including the time

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Speaker 1: and date that each department was given an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: provide comment on this cabinet submission and what their response was.

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Speaker 1: I mean, is that something that needs to happen here

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Speaker 1: or is that still something that could set a dangerous precedent.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it sets a dangerous precinct sort of

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Speaker 2: releasing cabinet in confidence information. But I think that's not

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Speaker 2: really what Lea Finocchiaro is chasing here. She's chasing treasury

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Speaker 2: analysis and other stuff that's not necessarily cabinet in confidence.

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Speaker 2: And the reason why this is important is because Michael

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Speaker 2: Gunner is sitting there saying there's nothing to see here.

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Speaker 2: No government minister was found to have done anything wrong.

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Speaker 2: IICAC have cleared us, which is not actually the case.

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Speaker 2: The case is that, you know, Michael Gunn is saying that.

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Speaker 2: But if you have a look at the IQAQ report

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Speaker 2: on page eighty one, the Commissioner writes, there's no written

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Speaker 2: record of the analysis of the submission by the anti

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Speaker 2: government for two pm on that Thursday, which was before

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Speaker 2: the cabinet meeting, it cannot be said that the grant

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Speaker 2: was justified by any rigorous process within the government. Such

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Speaker 2: a process could not be carried out, not the least

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Speaker 2: because there was no submission on which it could be based.

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Speaker 2: What occurred after two pm cannot be known by me,

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Speaker 2: the subject of inquiry or comment by me, by reason

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Speaker 2: of cabinet privilege. So that's basically what he said in

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Speaker 2: his report. So it does make a bit of a

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Speaker 2: mockery of Michael Gunner saying, oh, well, we've all been

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Speaker 2: completely cleared anything, But what the Commissioner said he hasn't

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Speaker 2: been able to investigate that. And you know, I think

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Speaker 2: for a Blake who went to a couple of elections

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Speaker 2: now on a platform of transparency and accountability, you think

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Speaker 2: you'd be doing everything you can to show the literature

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Speaker 2: that justifies your decision on a particular thing like this

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Speaker 2: race course Greenstein. But you know, I think there's a

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Speaker 2: lot more to come out on this card. Haven't scratched

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Speaker 2: the service. There's a whole range of contracts and all

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Speaker 2: that sort of stuff that haven't even been looked at.

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Speaker 2: And you know, it's going to be interesting to see

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Speaker 3: People will, well, people will draw their own conclusions about

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Speaker 3: this sort of stuff and as well at.

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Speaker 2: The moment they will, but there's a lack of information

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Speaker 3: But as we've said, and we've seen this before, and

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Speaker 4: Electoral winning and being able to win elections.

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Speaker 3: Often this isn't the only time that there's always a

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Speaker 3: it's a good bang for Buckford taxpayer. It's the ugly

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Speaker 3: side of politics, if you like. As I said last week,

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Speaker 3: so people will draw their own conclusion. Michael Gunner got

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Speaker 3: re elected after this money had been given to the

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of.

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Speaker 3: Other things that we need in the community for twelve million,

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Speaker 3: and my view was that the race course should raise

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Speaker 4: My position hasn't changed. Obviously, in a.

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Speaker 3: Couple of weeks time, everyone will be patting each other

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Speaker 3: But at the time I think I was one that

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Speaker 3: didn't fully agree with it. Michael got reelected anyway on that.

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Speaker 3: Now this has come out, obviously the opposition will use

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Speaker 3: this to discredit the government. I agree with Dave in

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Speaker 3: regards to the cabinet side of it that when's that

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Speaker 3: all come out twenty years time or thirty years time,

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Speaker 3: thirty years time and governments in the past have always

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Speaker 3: kept that confidentiality there. So people will draw their own

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Speaker 3: conclusions whether or not the Chief Minister and the other

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Speaker 2: In Well, I think, like I say, Haley, there's a

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Speaker 2: lot more to come out.

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Speaker 1: I was going to come out in the next few weeks.

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Speaker 2: A whole lot of people walking around on eggshells at

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Speaker 2: the moment, wonder in which next card has about to

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Speaker 2: be pulled out underneath?

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Speaker 4: When's the because there is August.

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Speaker 1: Nine, Let's just go to that next part of the story,

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Speaker 1: because August nine is when that spill. So on Friday

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Speaker 1: we found out that the Turf Club is going to

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Speaker 1: the August nine Special General Meeting and through the Darwin

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Speaker 1: Turf Club carnival. Now my understanding is that mister Bachino

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Speaker 1: But at this point, so what we're being told by

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Speaker 3: They probably arecorum that they need to have to have

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Speaker 3: board meetings and make decisions at this timing year. It's

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Speaker 3: it's the timing couldn't be worse, could it, because it's

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Speaker 3: the major carnival. People are coming up from down south,

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Speaker 3: and the focus is going to be on the Darwin

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Speaker 3: Cup and the race meetings that you know, we're pre

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Speaker 3: sort of stuff hanging over them. But I bet you know,

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Speaker 3: without having read the constitution, I don't know the constitution

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Speaker 3: of the board, but I did visage that they would

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Speaker 3: need a number of board members to continue in this

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Speaker 3: sort of circumstance. So bring on the meeting. I don't

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Speaker 3: think I personally, you don't think it's a big deal.

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Speaker 3: It's not as though these people will be making major

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Speaker 3: three weeks and the board meeting you the AGM will

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Speaker 3: be held on the ninth of August, and I understand

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Speaker 3: all positions will be spilled anyway, so I don't see

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Speaker 3: to still make the day to day running of the organization,

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Speaker 3: especially this time of year. It's busy, and I think

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Speaker 2: I think there's got to be a whole, whole and

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Speaker 2: total review of horse racing in the territory. You know,

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Speaker 2: we tried to do it when we were in government.

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Speaker 2: We were sort of held back on a range of areas.

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Speaker 2: But in the recent events have just I think shone

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Speaker 2: territory and there needs to be a full, full scale

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Speaker 2: inquiry with some recommendations on a way forward for horse

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Speaker 2: racing in the territory. I mean, I mean any inquiry

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Speaker 2: should look at things other than just a greenstein. When

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Speaker 2: you look at the amount of money that taxpayers are

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Speaker 2: shoveling into that organization that it makes your hair curl.

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Speaker 2: You know, more money than the entire Department of Fisheries

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Speaker 1: light of the continuing uncertainty around the COVID pandemic, the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory governments announced that the Arafura Games are no

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Speaker 1: longer going ahead. The Ara Games. I was trying not

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Speaker 1: to laugh. The Arafura Games are a multi sport event

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Speaker 1: that target international athletes, and yeah, so not going ahead.

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Speaker 1: that no, at this point they have been taken off

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it's pretty surprise, that's right.

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Speaker 3: Actually, Dave and I could probably compete and win something

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Speaker 3: if there's no other no other competitors, so it's not

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Speaker 4: Starting competitions.

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Speaker 3: And I can report that Dave did have a little

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Speaker 3: on the ARA few of games, it was made very tons.

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Speaker 4: Of the Northern Territory. They showed their hand.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you a little thing. I mean at the time.

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Speaker 2: You know, we were all of the people in the

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Speaker 2: their support for the air A fewer games. And I

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Speaker 2: remember making the point, I said, we're asking the wrong people.

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Speaker 2: I said, what do you mean. I said, well, you

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Speaker 2: ring up the administrators of any sport and you say, oh,

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Speaker 2: what do you think if we can to the ARA

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Speaker 2: few of games, They're all going to clap their hands

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Speaker 2: together and say, oh you beauty, because it's to night

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Speaker 2: mere organizing these things. If you're a sports administrator. But

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Speaker 2: go and ask the players, go and ask the volunteers,

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Speaker 2: go and ask the people who intend to go and

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Speaker 2: spectate what they think about it. You get a surprisingly

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Speaker 2: different answer. There was a lot of love for the

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Speaker 2: Er A fewer games. And you know, we were certainly

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Speaker 2: Fewer Games was one and it probably needed reform rather

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Speaker 4: In hindsight, Well least buddy eight years too late. He

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Speaker 4: Five got to go.

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Speaker 1: We're got to think about marketing ourselves slightly differently as well, though,

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Speaker 2: These scenes, I think, Katie, should you know they should

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Speaker 1: Hey, I do want to just take across to this

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Speaker 4: We've got a lot.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of people involved with the club, and

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Speaker 4: From what Nigel has said that the club's.

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Speaker 3: Been very accountable and upfront and honest, and I'd encourage

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Speaker 4: And I think from what.

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Speaker 2: Now, Katie, I listened to all that. Haley is always,

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Speaker 2: as usual the voice of reason. You said it right,

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Speaker 2: who's kept Australia safe from coronavirus, is flying in from

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Speaker 3: August twenty one, this is the human headline one.

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Speaker 2: Kevin Rudd.

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Speaker 4: He's coming to Kevin.

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Speaker 2: Rudd, He's coming to the territory. I understand he's coming

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Speaker 4: He will be visiting me.

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Speaker 2: No, he wants me to go and visit keV with him.

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Speaker 3: Coming to the first of August for the faithful. This

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Speaker 4: Government's up here against clamor and led Labor to victory

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Speaker 1: Did you organize that visit?

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Speaker 2: I would. I get on very well with Kevin.

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Speaker 4: But Dave Tom looking fifty.

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Speaker 3: So if there's anyone out there that's got a spare

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Speaker 2: Tellstand he's about to be beatified. He'll be Kevin soon.

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Speaker 1: Listeners for our listeners, this is a joke. He's really

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Speaker 2: A guest told you, Katie coming here with big issues,

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Speaker 4: I don't how many tickets. I don't know how many to.

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Speaker 4: How many tickets are still available?

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Speaker 3: But to the faithful of the Labor Party, faithful if

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Speaker 4: All the elected members will be there.

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Speaker 2: But wants to me there, I don't.

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Speaker 1: Know to let you into a Labor Party.

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Speaker 2: Some of the locals here are very they're very small.

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Speaker 3: Well, I've heard that, and all the ministers of this guy, we've.

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Speaker 2: The Only question is I want to know is he

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Speaker 4: But who's Barry?

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Speaker 2: He's made Barry? You know Barry Obama.

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Speaker 4: Was a mischief maker to day.

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Speaker 2: I don't think Julia will get.

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Speaker 2: But Julia tried to get I'll tell you what if guy,

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Speaker 4: Real between me and between me and Ruddy. We should

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