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Speaker 1: Roger cook is with a solo premier.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: We were talking about well, I.

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Speaker 3: Was talking about my dog and how I've got a

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Speaker 3: booker in for a haircut two months in advance, and

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Speaker 3: that means it's booked in for mid November.

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Speaker 1: That's how late in the year it is.

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Speaker 3: Christmas, And yes, it does get booked in more regularly

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Speaker 3: than I do looking.

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Speaker 2: After the dog. Boy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Christmas will be here like that because people start

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Speaker 4: talking about things they're doing Christmas time.

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Speaker 1: But there's a lot happening between now and then.

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Speaker 3: You've just been to Indonesia and we're just having a

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Speaker 3: little bit of a quick chat before we turned the

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Speaker 3: mics on.

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Speaker 1: Indonesia is about to become the.

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Speaker 2: Fifth largest economy in the world now here.

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Speaker 1: We are right there and.

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Speaker 5: It's closed so closer to us than Sydney and Melbourne,

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Speaker 5: you know. Yeah, two hundred and seventy eight million people

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Speaker 5: sitting just off our coast. It's a huge economic opportunity

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Speaker 5: for us. So we took a big trade delegation of

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Speaker 5: over one hundred and thirty political and business leaders to Indonesia.

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Speaker 5: Really part of and this is part of my commitment

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Speaker 5: around versifying our industries but also diversifying our markets.

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Speaker 2: You know, we need to have our economy.

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Speaker 5: Being resilient, resilient to geopolitical disruptions, other disruptions that come

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Speaker 5: along from time to time. So the opportunity to expand

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Speaker 5: our trade opportunities with Indonesia is absolutely critical to our future.

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Speaker 4: And that is a big delegation. And you headed up

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Speaker 4: to a career as well.

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Speaker 2: Popped up to career.

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Speaker 5: We spent some time there at a trade conference, but

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Speaker 5: also some time with a company called Cosco, fourth largest

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Speaker 5: steel manufacturer in the world, looking to manufacture green steel

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Speaker 5: in Western Australia. We're working with them on a project

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Speaker 5: around port Headland. If that comes into being, many thousands

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Speaker 5: of jobs, huge investments. So this represents a great opportunity

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Speaker 5: for WA and is all part of that.

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Speaker 2: Energy transition that we're going into.

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Speaker 5: If you start producing renewable energy pretty much zero cost

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Speaker 5: because it's come from the wind and the sun, well

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Speaker 5: then all of a sudden, manufacturing can be based in

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Speaker 5: Western Australia. So that means huge, huge, uplifting jobs, but

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Speaker 5: continues to build the resilience in our economy.

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Speaker 1: H that's all great news.

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Speaker 2: It's exciting stuff.

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Speaker 5: And look this is the future for w We're on

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Speaker 5: the cusp of a great new period of our economic

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Speaker 5: life as the world understands that renewable energy is key

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Speaker 5: to decarbonizing their economy, and Western Australia not only wants

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Speaker 5: to be a renewable energy powerhouse to decarbonize our economy,

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Speaker 5: we want to help decarbonize the economies of the world.

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Speaker 5: So there's some great economy, some great job opportunities, investment

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Speaker 5: opportunities coming forward just around the corner.

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Speaker 3: Excellent things going on at home. We're constantly, of course,

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Speaker 3: hearing about the cost of living crisis. The other thing

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Speaker 3: that we hear about sadly too much. And I always think,

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Speaker 3: you know, if these were shark attacks, where there would

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Speaker 3: be I don't know what, but domestic violence, murders, people

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Speaker 3: being murdered one of the things that the government is

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Speaker 3: trying to help deal with the situation because there is

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Speaker 3: no short answer and there is no one group that's

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Speaker 3: going to be able to provide an answer.

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Speaker 1: But the government is strengthening firearms laws.

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Speaker 2: Yep, that's right.

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Speaker 5: And look, violence is unacceptable in any form, but violence

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Speaker 5: on our society. Yeah, and it's one which has been

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Speaker 5: with us forever. I think we're having a better conversation

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Speaker 5: now about this and so.

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Speaker 1: Well, we're having a conversation please, so at least.

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Speaker 2: I think there's greater awareness that is going on.

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Speaker 5: So we brought in a range of made a range

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Speaker 5: of announcements yesterday around responding particularly to the spate of

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Speaker 5: tragic family and domestic violence incidents that have occurred recently.

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Speaker 5: And part of that's around continuing to listen to the

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Speaker 5: victims of family domestic violence and that's such a crucial

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Speaker 5: element maintaining that conversation in the community, but also saying

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Speaker 5: if you're convicted of a violent crime, or if you're

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Speaker 5: subject to a violence restraining order or something of that nature,

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Speaker 5: perhaps you're not an appropriate person to hold a far

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and i'se that's fair enough.

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Speaker 2: And I think it's a sensible approach.

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Speaker 4: Roger, you can't understand understate the importance of this Lived

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Speaker 4: Experience Advisory Board, because that is the key togain these

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Speaker 4: people have been in those situations.

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Speaker 5: That's right, because we know that family and domestic violence

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Speaker 5: comes in many forms, and it's a multiplicited problem, so

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Speaker 5: we need to understand the full extent and the impact

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Speaker 5: that has on the victims. We went to the Family

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Speaker 5: my ministers along to hear these these stories that the

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Speaker 5: pain that people have experienced, the trauma that they continue

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Speaker 5: to experience. We have to respond to this, and we

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Speaker 2: It won't happen overnight.

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Speaker 5: But we're going to put a big focus on this

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Speaker 3: Talking about it is you know, so important, and I'm

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Speaker 3: you know, I'm embarrassed to say, oh, I think all

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Speaker 3: three of us come from a generation where.

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Speaker 1: Things like this did not get talked about.

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Speaker 3: That's right, and we are only in it's a recent

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Speaker 3: thing that you know, people have realized gosh, talking about

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Speaker 3: it is what we've got to do. And another thing

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Speaker 3: that that applies to is mental health. And there was

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Speaker 3: a terrible story in the West on Monday saying one

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Speaker 3: in three Ossie's with mental health issues don't actually get

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Speaker 3: help before it's you know, gone past the point of.

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Speaker 5: Many of us just try to push through, just try

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Speaker 5: to get through it and as a former mental health

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Speaker 5: of mental health in our community is absolutely profound, and

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Speaker 5: we're investing significantly and in all stages of the process,

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Speaker 5: whether it's assisting helplines or those or sub acute services

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Speaker 5: like step up step down facilities, or it's some of

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Speaker 5: Hospital recently and we'll have to continue to invest in

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Speaker 5: this as mental health continues to become a problem in

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Speaker 5: our community. Now again we are talking to so yes,

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Speaker 5: people are more aware of it, but I think I

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Speaker 5: think social media the pace of life at the moment,

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Speaker 5: the fact that people feel more isolated, even though we're

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Speaker 5: a more digitally connected world, is impacting upon the incident

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Speaker 5: weird community. Yes, I mean, I mean you mentioned our generation.

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Speaker 5: I'm so glad I didn't grow up with social media.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, so I wish I didn't.

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Speaker 5: Now I watched my kids when they were growing up,

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Speaker 5: and I'm thinking the world is so much more complex

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Speaker 1: We had stuff going on, but it didn't follow us

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Speaker 2: Correct, well it didn't.

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Speaker 4: Not everyone got a chance to say something that may

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Speaker 4: upset you at any any topic. Yeah, and some of

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Speaker 4: the rubbish it is, so we've got to do.

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Speaker 2: More in that, we have to continue to talk about it.

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Speaker 4: Un less, it did bring up, mister Premier about the

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Speaker 4: cost of living that affects so many people. How and

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Speaker 4: that leads us to home housing and the shortage of housing.

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Speaker 4: It's so disturbing, and that also leads to a lot

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Speaker 4: of the crime that we've seen. There was a big

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Speaker 4: news story yesterday about so many even petty criminals, but

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Speaker 4: people a lot of shoplifting and something like two thousand

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Speaker 4: people affected by nine hundred different shoplifting cases.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and look, one of the things I've committed to

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Speaker 5: as the Premiere, the new Premiere for Western Australia is

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Speaker 5: to say, look, we not only want the state to

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Speaker 5: be prosperous, but we want to take the opportunity to

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Speaker 5: reach out to those who are doing it tough.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's great that that we've.

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Speaker 5: Got such low unemployment at the moment, but let's accept

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Speaker 5: that the cost of living and other factors making it

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Speaker 5: as you know, as great an experience as it should.

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Speaker 2: Be, so we need to reach back to those people.

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Speaker 5: That's why I was really pleased that we've now got

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Speaker 5: our electricity rebate. It's going out. The first two hundred

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Speaker 5: dollars went out in July. Just recently we've just announced

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Speaker 5: the Kids Sport Program, which means that which provides three

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Speaker 5: hundred dollars, we've doubled that three hundred dollars to families

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Speaker 5: so that they can their kids can continue to enjoy sport,

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Speaker 5: and we'll continue to look at other ways we can

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Speaker 5: assist people. Housing is obviously a really important thing, and

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Speaker 5: you would have seen the ten billion dollar Housing Australia

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Speaker 2: That's a welcome relief as well.

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Speaker 5: We need to use every element of government to continue

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Speaker 5: to increase housing stock, and not just housing social housing,

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Speaker 3: The other aspect of that is of course the problem

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Speaker 3: of that. It's all very well to have that money,

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Speaker 3: but people aren't able to build their houses at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, don't you want to?

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Speaker 1: If you ever wanted to get into a trade, now's

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Speaker 2: Now's the time, wrong to be a chippy, that's right.

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Speaker 2: So look, there's two elements of that.

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Speaker 5: One was the supply chain constraints, which is very much

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Speaker 5: a post COVID thing that's now starting to ease.

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Speaker 2: What we need now is.

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Speaker 5: Workers, Okay, yes, and that's an important part of making

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Speaker 5: sure we've got the people to build the homes that

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Speaker 3: We can't keep it for long, of course, we're very

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Speaker 3: restricted with your time. But can you just tell us

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Speaker 3: what's going on at Rottnest this weekend?

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Speaker 2: Oh look, this is a fantastic thing. This is called

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Speaker 2: this is.

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Speaker 5: A kids Weekend at rot Nest to celebrate the new

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Speaker 5: baby Quakers. Round about this time, the Quakers start having

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Speaker 5: their Joey's, So we want to celebrate that wonderful part

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Speaker 5: of the of the year by having a kids weekend.

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Speaker 5: We've got live entertainment, arts and crafts activities, photography workshops,

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Speaker 5: eco education sessions and it's all free for kids. Fantastic

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Speaker 5: and at rot Nest you have to register, so please

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Speaker 5: go into the rock Nest website to get more details.

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Speaker 5: All the fees and charges you still have to pay

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Speaker 5: for your ferry, but and charges on routo have been

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Speaker 5: waived this weekend. We want people to have a great time.

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Speaker 5: Let's just think about what's coming up after this. We've

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Speaker 5: got the Matilda's qualifying rounds in relation to the next

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Speaker 2: We've got couple play.

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Speaker 5: Play play. There will roll into summer. It's a great

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Speaker 5: time to be in Western Australia.

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Speaker 4: And the celebrations of course for forty years until America's

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Speaker 4: Cup wins, a lot of will light up again.

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Speaker 2: The twenty fourth of September.

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Speaker 5: I mean talking about our demographic we remember it right,

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Speaker 5: I mean it's it's it's going to be a great

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Speaker 5: weekend just to celebrate an amazing achievement that was by Australia,

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Speaker 5: Western Australia's own Australia too.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, Thanks, great to see