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Speaker 1: And well, we have been talking a bit about the

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Speaker 1: Fieries this week, as as plenty of you will know.

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Speaker 1: Joining us in the studio right now is the Assistant

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Speaker 1: Chief Fire Officer. Well, hang on, I think I got

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Speaker 1: your title wrong there, Josh, who are Fisher? Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning kat Assistant Chief Fire Office.

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Speaker 1: Oh I did get it right. Excellent. Well, it's always

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Speaker 1: good to have you in this studio. I will just

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Speaker 1: very quickly firstly ask you. I know that we had

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Speaker 1: Mark Spain on the show yesterday and we did talk

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Speaker 1: about this situation that's been reported that there were comments

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Speaker 1: made by the CEO of the Northern Territory Police, Fire

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Speaker 1: and Emergency Services that have made some within the Fieries

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Speaker 1: feel disrespected. The union's come out and made a whole

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Speaker 1: raft of comments.

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Speaker 2: Josh, were you there, Yes, I was there, Katie.

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Speaker 1: And did you feel as though, well, did you feel

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Speaker 1: disrespected by the comments that the CEO had made?

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Speaker 2: No, I didn't.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's disappointing to sort of hear that there's

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Speaker 3: lots of hearsay that's been spread surrounding this matter. I

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Speaker 3: did not hear the CEO say the terms greedy or

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Speaker 3: anything related to that. Look, what I will say, Katie,

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Speaker 3: is that our people are the most valuable asset of

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Speaker 2: So I am sad and disappointed to hear that.

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Speaker 3: People feel that they're not supported or valued, or that

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Speaker 3: they feel safe to be able to raise matters. You know,

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Speaker 3: this could not be further from the truth. Our people

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Speaker 3: encounter horrific scenes in devastation on a regular basis, and

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Speaker 3: we have a shared responsibility to support the physical health,

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Speaker 3: mental health, and wellbeing of our people. And the current

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Speaker 3: and ongoing rhetoric further exacerbates the impact of our people.

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Speaker 1: So do you feel as though you feel as though

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Speaker 1: you are supported?

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Speaker 2: Percent?

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Speaker 3: We're supported, and certainly I would hope that any member

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Speaker 3: discuss any matter that is affecting them within our service.

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Speaker 3: I'm approachable and I'll listen to any member, irrespective of

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Speaker 3: their role their rank, whether they be a volunteer, auxiliary

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Speaker 3: or career firefighter, I encourage them to reach out. And

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Speaker 3: this is also extends to our chief fire Officer and

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Speaker 1: Well, look, I think there'll probably be a bit more

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Speaker 1: political discussion about it, or a bit more discussion about it.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to put you in a situation that

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Speaker 1: you know, that's yeah. I don't want to put you

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Speaker 1: in a terrible situation in any way, shape or form.

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Speaker 1: Obviously you were in the room though, as was Mark Spain.

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Speaker 1: I know that you've both now come forward and have

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Speaker 1: Now I do actually want to ask you about what

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Speaker 1: you came in to talk about this morning, and that

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Speaker 1: is the Firefighter Come and Try Day. Is it happening

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Speaker 1: this weekend?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's correct.

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Speaker 3: We've got two locations, so we've got the Fosskey Pavilion

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Speaker 3: for the physical aptitude testing where it allows people who

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Speaker 3: opportunity to see if they are able to pass that

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Speaker 1: So how much what do they actually have to do

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Speaker 3: So the assessments consist of both fitness and simulated on

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Speaker 3: that we respond to. So the physical aptitude test is

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Speaker 3: broken down into three stages. Where we undertake a simulated

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Speaker 3: Then we have a rescue tool static hold, so obviously

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Speaker 1: It sounds like it's hard.

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Speaker 2: It's extremely hard, very hard to do.

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Speaker 1: It had to be pretty fish.

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Speaker 3: I reckon to be a firing definitely. There's a number

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Speaker 3: it's strength, that's endurance, it's all of the above. So hence,

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Speaker 3: while we're getting in early getting people to come and

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Speaker 1: How many people would typically it up to do the

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Speaker 3: Look, there is limited spots, so we do request that

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Speaker 3: people come in. They make contact with the Fire and

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Speaker 3: Rescue Service through fire dot Recruitment at PFES dot NT

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Speaker 3: dot gov dot AU by closer business Friday so that

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Speaker 3: we can manage how many people will be there on Saturday.

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Speaker 3: But generally we'll have between twenty to thirty people, sometimes

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Speaker 1: Do people usually like do they find it quite eye

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Speaker 2: Required of them look one hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: And I was at our last coming Friday where there

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Speaker 3: was some extremely fit looking people that really really struggled.

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Speaker 3: Whilst they might have cardiovascular strength, that endurance, we're talking

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Speaker 3: about repeated tasks. We're then talking about reduced visibility, so

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Speaker 3: testing members you know, claustrophobia, We're then looking at their

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Speaker 3: functional strength. So there's a whole rasp of things that

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Speaker 3: we're testing and cardiovascular while people might be fit and healthy,

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Speaker 3: there's a little bit more to it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like it. Well, I'm sure it will

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Speaker 1: be a successful day. Now. If people are after a

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Speaker 3: So if they go to email Fire dot Recruitment at

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Speaker 3: PFS dot NT dot gov dot au, if they email

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Speaker 3: their interests there and if they've got any questions they

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Speaker 3: can ask them, we'll reply back. Further to that, there

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Speaker 3: is a breakdown of the physical aptitude test on our website.

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Speaker 3: So if you head to PFS dot NT dot gov

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Speaker 3: DoD AU, if you go to fire Recruitment, you'll see

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Speaker 3: a whole infopac there that breaks down the whole element

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Speaker 1: Good staff for Assistant Chief Fire Officer Joshua Fisher. Good

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Speaker 1: to catch up with you this morning. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for coming in.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, thank you,