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Speaker 1: But joining us on the line right now is the

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Speaker 1: deputy Opposition leader Jared Maylee. Good morning to you, Jared, Good.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Katie, Good morning listeners. Jared.

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Speaker 1: We know that's an issue that you guys have been

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Speaker 1: raising out in the rural area and beyond is the

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Speaker 1: immediate need or the immediate review is what you'd like

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Speaker 1: to see for additional emergency shelters in rural and regional areas.

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Speaker 1: Tell us exactly what you're talking about here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks Katie. It seems that the Labor government has

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Speaker 2: just forgotten rural residents. Again. There's only two shelves out

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Speaker 2: here in the rural areas of very Spring School and

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Speaker 2: over at Mandora. That means people are living at Dundee

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Speaker 2: all around the rule they have to drive all the

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Speaker 2: way in which it could be an over an hour's

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Speaker 2: drive to go to a cyclone shelter, or they have

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Speaker 2: to take the risk and start their own home. So

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Speaker 2: again we called on the government. We gave two petitions

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Speaker 2: to bring into their attention and know I've you've done

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Speaker 2: nothing at all, just ignored the conservative rural residents.

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Speaker 1: So these petitions were actually or you put forward to

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Speaker 1: motion and Ian Sloan as I understand it actually put

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Speaker 1: forward in motion to Parliament in February to immediately review

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Speaker 1: and assess the need for additional emergency shelters and rural

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Speaker 1: and regional areas. How far did that get you or

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Speaker 1: what's the update.

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Speaker 2: On that, Well, there is no update, unfortunately, Katie, it

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Speaker 2: didn't go anywhere. I also wrote to the Chief Minister

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Speaker 2: about a pet friendly cyclone shelter in the rural area

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Speaker 2: and I've got a correspondence back saying we'll review it.

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Speaker 2: But that's it. Unfortunately, the cyclone season is upon us,

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Speaker 2: it will be here in the next few months, and

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Speaker 2: we know that the climate is happening and we're getting

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Speaker 2: more severe weather conditions. So it's likely that Darwin's going

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Speaker 2: to be affected by List one cyclone. And the rural

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Speaker 2: residence and also residents of regional the territory are just

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Speaker 2: need forgotten about by the Labor government. They're happy to

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Speaker 2: spend twelve million dollars on a grandstand or two or

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Speaker 2: three million dollars on a shade structure, but they neglect

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Speaker 2: the well being of rural residence where it's a real

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Speaker 2: concern out here because some of the people out here

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Speaker 2: the harm might not be cyclone. They yet it's too

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Speaker 2: far to go. And also bear in mind that there's

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Speaker 2: a real lack of medical services out here as well.

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Speaker 2: So if you're living at Dundee and you get injured

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Speaker 2: through a cyclone, you've got to travel all the way

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Speaker 2: into the city. So again rural residents has just been

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Speaker 2: neglected by the labor government.

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Speaker 1: So jerb where can people currently go? Like, say, if

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Speaker 1: you're in Dundee for example, like where what is the

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Speaker 1: option if there is a cyclone aside from your home,

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Speaker 1: do you have to travel into into town or what

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Speaker 1: do you need to do?

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Speaker 2: Now you've got to go to Berry Springs Primary School

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Speaker 2: or over to Mandora And I'm pretty sure it's a

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Speaker 2: council chambers and Mandora Wildye Beach which are only very

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Speaker 2: small from my understanding, Very Spring fits about three hundred

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Speaker 2: and the one at Walks about one hundred, so it's

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Speaker 2: only four hundred people can go to. And there's a

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Speaker 2: lot more people in the rural area than that, so

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Speaker 2: if they're full, you could drive all the way in

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Speaker 2: and be turned away at the door.

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Speaker 1: So what exactly do you think needs to happen here?

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Speaker 1: Do you think that something needs to be constructed, or

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Speaker 1: does a site that's maybe already there need to be

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Speaker 1: modified so that it is able to be cyclone coded

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Speaker 1: and people are able to shelter there in emergency.

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Speaker 2: Well, I wrote to the government and I spoke to

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Speaker 2: let's use Calling Essentral for an example. There's an underground

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Speaker 2: car park there. I went spoke to the previous owners

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Speaker 2: about that and they said they'd be happy to use

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Speaker 2: their underground car park as a cyclone shelter. But no

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Speaker 2: one from the government has approached them. And I put

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Speaker 2: that in writing to the government and they just didn't

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Speaker 2: do anything with it. So there are locations out here

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Speaker 2: that can be used yet the government I haven't even

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Speaker 2: followed up at a place like calling the Central so

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Speaker 2: jar where do you reckon?

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Speaker 1: These shelters need to be.

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Speaker 2: Well, ultimately, they need to be where it's close and

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Speaker 2: handy for territory and so you don't want to have

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Speaker 2: to drive an hour from Dundee. So the government need

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Speaker 2: to go and find a location out of Dundee. I

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Speaker 2: need to go into how it springs and for example

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Speaker 2: the pet friendly because if you've got your cats or

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Speaker 2: your dog or your pony, you've got to go all

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Speaker 2: the way into Parmesan for a cyclone shelter.

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Speaker 1: So what does happen if you've got horses, where do

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Speaker 1: you take them during the event of an emergency?

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Speaker 2: Well, for your horses, what you've got to do is

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Speaker 2: ultimately you've got to open up your gates and learn

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Speaker 2: go out in the middle of the paddock. That's the

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Speaker 2: safest spot for them. Wow.

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Speaker 1: So how I mean is this something that is being

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Speaker 1: raised sort of daily at the moment or how often

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Speaker 1: are you hearing from residents out in the rural area

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Speaker 1: and further beyond, because you know, when we're talking about

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Speaker 1: the likes of Dundee and also Daily River and you

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Speaker 1: know Walgut Beach, it's you know, it's a bit further

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Speaker 1: than just the rural area. How often are they raising

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Speaker 1: these concerns with you out that way?

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Speaker 2: Well, there several people have raised it with me, and

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Speaker 2: I know that more than several people have raised it

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Speaker 2: was here because he went all the way to draw emotion.

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Speaker 2: So it's a real concern for a rural residents and

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Speaker 2: people out of those Dundee and the Daily because remember

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Speaker 2: the daily floods almost every year, and there's no shelves

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Speaker 2: out there that have to be buying into bachelor last

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Speaker 2: time when there was a cyclone out there. So again

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Speaker 2: just foresight on the Labor government.

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Speaker 1: Well, it'll be something that's no doubt we'll hear more

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Speaker 1: about over the next couple of weeks or over the

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Speaker 1: next week or so, as this Daily by election heats

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Speaker 1: up as well. I'll be interested to hear from those

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Speaker 1: priority they would be giving to trying to secure an

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Speaker 1: emergency shelter in those areas. But the reality of it

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Speaker 1: is the government really does need to have a bit

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Speaker 1: of a closer look at this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the reality is the Labor government dropped the ball

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Speaker 2: in relation to the cyclone and nerdy shells in the

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Speaker 2: rural area.

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Speaker 1: Well, Jared, I tell you what sounds like things have

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Speaker 1: already heated up. I'd say for the Daily by election.

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Speaker 1: Good to catch up with you. Thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for having a chat with us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Katie.

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Speaker 1: Thank you that is a deputy opposition leader there, Jared Mayleie.

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Speaker 1: And we might see whether we are able to get

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Speaker 1: a bit of a response from the government in this

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Speaker 1: space as to why there isn't any emergency shelter for

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Speaker 1: those residents in will the likes of Dundee obviously, so

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Speaker 1: there's no option for those residents at Dundee to seek

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Speaker 1: shelter in the event of a natural disaster. So the

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Speaker 1: closest shelter is at Bury Springs the school it's an

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Speaker 1: hour away. So we'll just see whether we can get

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Speaker 1: some further detail from the government whether they've got any

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Speaker 1: plans to obviously look at there being a shelter out

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Speaker 1: at Dundee. If you live out that way and you

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