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Speaker 1: Joining me live in the studio from a f and

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Speaker 1: it is David Girovolo.

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Speaker 2: How are you. I'm well, Katie, how are you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Good. We haven't had a catch up for a while.

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Speaker 1: And there's so much happening in your sector.

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Speaker 2: That's right, it's been too long.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, always a lot happening in the world of

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Speaker 3: recreational fishing.

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Speaker 1: Mate, There always is, especially here in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 1: And I know that very recently you guys had your AGM,

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Speaker 1: didn't you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we did. We had that on Thursday last week.

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Speaker 3: Gosh, it feels like longer ago now, but wow, it

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Speaker 3: felt like a long time getting there.

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Speaker 2: It's been a.

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Speaker 3: Really really big year and a year that we're really

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Speaker 3: proud of, but also we've got a lot to look

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Speaker 3: forward to as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I guess those agms they are always a

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Speaker 1: really important time to kind of look at the year

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Speaker 1: that's been, but also look at where you're going. And

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Speaker 1: no doubt that's an incredibly important thing for you guys

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Speaker 1: to do with our Fand it's been a tough year,

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Speaker 1: has Nash, Yeah, look, it certainly has.

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Speaker 3: I think it's been a tough year for everybody in

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Speaker 3: all work walks of life no matter what they do,

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Speaker 3: and obviously having the pandemic and the lockdown has had

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Speaker 3: an impact on so many people's lives. And you know,

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Speaker 3: it was really during the peak of that pandemic lockdown.

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Speaker 3: I'm sort of casting our minds back now to sort

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Speaker 3: of that March April May period when there was a

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Speaker 3: lot of uncertainty, when people were doing it tough. You know,

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Speaker 3: we saw a lot of people turn to fishing during

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Speaker 3: that time, and it was a main focus of ours

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Speaker 3: to make sure that we had good information, accurate information,

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Speaker 3: advice out to people, that we worked with the government

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Speaker 3: on making sure that advice was practical and most importantly

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Speaker 3: that we could keep people safe but keep people fishing.

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Speaker 1: David, did we find that people really turned to fishing

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Speaker 1: in those times, because I know, when there was discussion

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Speaker 2: People were really really upset about.

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Speaker 1: It, and not just because they enjoy fishing on the weekend,

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Speaker 1: but it was as if if those you know, if

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Speaker 1: those changes were too sort of strong, a lot of

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Speaker 1: people felt like it was going to have a big

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Speaker 1: impact on their mental health.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, and we know that there are huge

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Speaker 3: mental health, general health and well being benefits and social

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Speaker 3: benefits that come from going recreational fishing. And at a

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Speaker 3: time when people had had so much uncertainty and so

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Speaker 3: much change, and also at a time when other activities

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Speaker 3: were restricted, those benefits were highly accessed by recreational fishers.

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Speaker 3: People who had never been fishing before picked up a

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Speaker 3: rod for the first time, and it was about getting

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Speaker 3: time alone, and also doing something that wasn't that took

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Speaker 3: you away from your worries, something that was sort of

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Speaker 3: something that's quite fun. So there's a whole lot of

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Speaker 3: different ways that people access those benefits, but keeping people

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Speaker 1: And has this sort of been a way to measure,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So, you know, in typical fashion, we collect this

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Speaker 3: data periodically, and we collected it the year before the pandemic,

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Speaker 3: So that's terribly unhelpful. But one of the things that we,

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Speaker 3: and by all accounts, it's been actually a bumper year.

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Speaker 3: Now when you think about the fact that so often

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Speaker 3: To think that they've had a bumper year when people

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Speaker 3: really hits home at how much additional focus there has

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. Hey, let's talk about the fact

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Speaker 1: but they're actually well, is it one year on?

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Speaker 3: It's hard to believe, but coming in about a week

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Speaker 2: Some of them have been in the water for a

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Speaker 3: So the project was wrapped up in sort of mid

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Speaker 2: Has it gone well. We've seen some amazing footage.

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Speaker 3: There was a presentation from evaneed them at Fisheries at

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Speaker 3: our AGM and it showed some of the most recent

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Speaker 1: I reckon. I saw that on Channel nine as well,

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Speaker 1: and it looked amazing.

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Speaker 3: Indeed, so what we're seeing is not only large fish

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Speaker 3: it's called fowling, but fowling is essentially the thing that

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Speaker 3: sticks to something when you put it in the sea.

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Speaker 3: So you don't want that on your boat, but you

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Speaker 3: do want that on your reef. And we're seeing things

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Speaker 3: like muscles and oysters, bivalves, we're seeing different types of

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Speaker 3: and that's fish homes and that's fish food.

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Speaker 1: That's good news. Good news for us as territorians and

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Speaker 3: It's all about expanding those opportunities and diversifying that offering

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Speaker 3: to make it a better tourism destination and to cement

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Speaker 3: our places the best place of fish in Australia.

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Speaker 1: Yeap one hundred percent. Now, I know that we talk

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Speaker 1: and mining is one of those industries where we talk

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Speaker 1: about this a lot. But there is a certain type

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Speaker 1: of mining that our fans are quite concerned about, and

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Speaker 1: that is seabed mining. Talk us through the situation here

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Speaker 1: and what you sort of you know, don't want happening.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So what we've seen is the period of comment

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Speaker 3: sort of close on the EPA's draft report into seabed mining.

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Speaker 2: So there's been a moratorium or a ban.

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Speaker 3: On seabed mining since twenty twelve, and the EPA we're

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Speaker 3: tasked with looking into how it might be regulated, and

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Speaker 3: It's really highlighted that most types of seabedd are unlikely

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Speaker 1: And so would you, guys, you want to see that

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Speaker 3: So, having seen the draft report and having provided a submission,

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Speaker 3: knowing that submission will go not only to the EPA

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Speaker 3: report is a good report, but the government, when it

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Speaker 3: consider either bringing in a permanent moratorium on seabed mining

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Speaker 3: for the territory, need to back winners and pick winners,

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Speaker 3: and I just don't think that this is one This

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Speaker 3: isn't one that there's an opportunity cost of focusing on

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Speaker 3: regulating developing an industry that has high risk, no social license,

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Speaker 3: So let's focus on other things to grow the territory well.

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Speaker 1: Look. To be honest, I don't know a huge amount

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Speaker 1: how important the industry is to us. So I think

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Speaker 1: you've always got to be cautious in that space when

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Speaker 1: you know developing another industry could actually quite substantially impact

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Speaker 2: Yes, and that's always an important thing to balance.

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Speaker 3: And I think it's always important that we can't say

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Speaker 2: Need to be embedded in the environment.

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Speaker 3: And the early warnings that have come out from the

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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm keen to get a bit of an update

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Speaker 3: Well, look, by all accounts, there is an interim interim

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Speaker 3: on Dundee. So we've actually met about six times since then.

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Speaker 3: We're just about to provide some recommendations.

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Speaker 2: To the government. I'm not here to.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, but what I can say is it goes to

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Speaker 3: ongoing maintenance. It looks at long term, medium, short, medium

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Speaker 2: But what I can say for our fans part, and certainly.

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Speaker 3: We took this to the election policy prior to the

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Speaker 3: territory election was that we see Dundee as a duel

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Speaker 3: in the crown of not only territory fishing, but territory tourism.

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Speaker 3: It's an important place that really needs to be made

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Speaker 3: and needs to be future proofed. We want to see

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Speaker 3: improved launching and maintenance. We'd love to see land based

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Speaker 3: We'd like to see improved passenger landing through the installation

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Speaker 3: and yeah, that's certainly something we need to focus on.

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Speaker 3: But we've got very limited public space at Dundee. We've

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Speaker 3: got to get that foreshore area right and we have

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Speaker 3: to continue to make it a public asset so that

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Speaker 1: So, David, are you expecting that there's going to be

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Speaker 3: something that we would expect in this term of government. Look, obviously,

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Speaker 3: we have to acknowledge that COVID and the post COVID

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Speaker 3: and we have to understand that. But strategic investments in

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Speaker 3: our important places. Dundee is the most popular boat ramp

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Speaker 3: in the territory and it's arguably one of the most

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 3: So you know, when they get there, we've got to

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Speaker 3: have good facilities and they also we don't want people

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Speaker 3: being confronted with palm trees and a warm, inviting environment

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Speaker 1: Well, and particularly then when we talk about tourism and

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Speaker 1: we talk about tourism within a strike, which is what

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Speaker 1: we're going to see, you know what we're really pushing

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Speaker 1: at this point in time. Because we can't travel overseas

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Speaker 1: tourism and really tap into that market of people wanting

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Speaker 1: to come to the territory to fish. I would suspect

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Speaker 1: that Dundee is one of the flagship places to visit. Well.

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Speaker 3: I think it comes back to that sentiment earlier, which

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Speaker 3: is really about picking winners and understanding that we have

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Speaker 3: to go with where the strengths lie and where the

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Speaker 3: opportunities lie. Dundee is the destination. Unfortunately, probably due to

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Speaker 3: a real lack of master planning in the beginning, there

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Speaker 3: wasn't enough public space at Dundee and so it's quite

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Speaker 3: a cramped area and it's becoming a bit of a

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Speaker 3: victim of its own popularity. So what we have to

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Speaker 3: do is try to work together with all stakeholders to

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Speaker 3: make sure that not only do we have great facilities,

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Speaker 1: Well, David Chirravolo from AFANT always great to catch up

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Speaker 1: with you, mate, We've left it too long. We'll have

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Speaker 1: to catch up with you a bit more regularly. Again.

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Speaker 2: That sounds good to me. Thanks you, Udeo