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Speaker 1: point nine thanks to Joyce Main Darwin. Well, like we

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Speaker 1: Cam and it read when contractors removed the roadside signs recently,

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Speaker 1: These are a hazard for recreational vehicles and also road

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Speaker 1: The potential for injury and vehicle damage is not acceptable

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Speaker 1: and needs to be fixed. That one there from Cam,

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Speaker 1: get rid of them, as they're more dangerous now than

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Cam wasn't the only one who got in contact with

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Speaker 1: us about this yesterday. Following on from reading that message out,

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Speaker 1: we also received a call from deb But take a listen.

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Speaker 2: I live out in Humpty Doo, and I mean, obviously,

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Speaker 2: if someone drives over those metal spikes sticking out of

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Speaker 2: concern is for US Harsey people because if a horse

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Speaker 2: steps on one of them, that's goodbye horse.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I had not even thought of that.

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Speaker 2: Deb Yeah, it's if you have a horse with a

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, goodness, may so, Louck. Are these around everywhere

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Speaker 2: They're on the Num Highway there. I've seen them just

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Speaker 2: before the Cooley shops. They're on inbound pretty much everywhere

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Speaker 2: where the signs got taken down, which weren't cutting anybody,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Loki, think to yourself, why haven't they removed those

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Speaker 2: My guess is it's political. Someone got to be out

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Speaker 2: owners that were not notified that their signs were being

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Speaker 1: So that is part of that discussion yesterday that we'd

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Speaker 1: are really concerned about this. Now, we did put in

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory. A large number of signs have been removed

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Speaker 1: For those that didn't, signs were removed by the Department

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Speaker 1: there's no tolerance for assaults on hospital and security staff

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Speaker 1: is a joke. Staf for assaulted daily, either by being

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Speaker 1: it says, good morning Katie and Crewe Derby from the dew.

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Speaker 1: I was an impatient at RDH last week and was

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Speaker 1: very unappetizing. In two days, I ate two slices of

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Speaker 1: it was removed before I could eat anything. Orange juice

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Speaker 1: with the service of food? Good question? Yeah, good question,

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Speaker 1: their Derby, I'm not sure, but you would think so.

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Speaker 1: And look, I guess we all understand that they're serving

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Speaker 1: But you want to make sure that it's eatable. That's

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Speaker 1: for bloody shore. Other one here from Macca in Malac

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Speaker 1: being open and transparent and nearly choked on my iced coffee.

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Speaker 1: Another one here that there are currently five mental health

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Speaker 1: patients here in ed Now, why, says that Texter, Because

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Speaker 1: there are no free beds in the Jaru. There are

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