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Speaker 1: If you want to know what's happening on the local

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Speaker 1: political landscape, Katie Wolf has it covered on three sixty.

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Speaker 1: Everyone is listening Mix one oh four point nine. We

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Speaker 1: know that for some time the people of Dundee have

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Speaker 1: been calling for a health clinic out that way. Now,

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Speaker 1: joining me on the line from the Dundee Progress Association

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Speaker 1: Committee member, Emma can't write. Good morning to you, Emma.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Emma talk us through well your latest and most renewed

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Speaker 1: calls for a clinic for Dundee. I know this is

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Speaker 1: something you guys have been pushing for for some time,

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Speaker 1: but you're back into it and really want the government

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Speaker 1: to listen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, totally, Katie. Look, Dundee's changing, you know, as we know,

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Speaker 2: Dundee used to be that little sleeping community where we

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Speaker 2: didn't pay rates and everybody went to have their nice

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Speaker 2: little getaway and holiday home. But now with the you know,

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Speaker 2: the boat ramp and the roads and the infrastructure. There's

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Speaker 2: the holiday park down there putting quite a lot of

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Speaker 2: money into redeveloping the the holiday part. You know, it's

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Speaker 2: happening plates and the population is growing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how many people do live out there now?

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Speaker 2: Well, That's a really good question, Katie, for people probably

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Speaker 2: don't want to know that they live out there. But

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Speaker 2: there's we say about probably five hundred people. But what

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Speaker 2: what the issue is, Katie, is that that five hundred

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Speaker 2: based population can grow to five thousands over a long

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Speaker 2: weekend or over a weekend. So I mean, when you

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Speaker 2: think about you know, the other destination, he's got crab

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Speaker 2: for he's got sam Palms. You know, you've got a

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Speaker 2: lot of little places in between. There's a huge influx

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Speaker 2: of holiday houses at at Dundee. You know, it is

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Speaker 2: the Dundee the Darwins go to weekend escape to get

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Speaker 2: away from Darwin. It's only a ninety minute drive or

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Speaker 2: you know, two hour drive really from Darwen City, but

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Speaker 2: it's a lot. It's far enough to be somewhere that

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Speaker 2: needs some healthcare facilities. But and like I said, the

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Speaker 2: population is just growing. I mean, the caravans that are

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Speaker 2: heading north, that are using Dundee is their home season

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Speaker 2: is phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: And like you said, you know, obviously over the dry season,

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Speaker 1: but you know when there's people are there fishing all

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Speaker 1: the time, it's become a real little tourist hub. You know.

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Speaker 1: Can you talk our listeners through. Why it is such

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Speaker 1: a concern that there's not a clinic out there should

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Speaker 1: something go wrong or should somebody really encounter an emergency situation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I mean there are a lot of things

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Speaker 2: to feedback to the health clinic. So like, for example,

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Speaker 2: you know there's no post out at Dundee.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so if.

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Speaker 2: Something goes wrong on the water, there's no first responders.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, you know, the growing population of people

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Speaker 2: that are using Dundee as a holiday home or as

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Speaker 2: a retirement destination, or the caravans that come to experience

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Speaker 2: the dry season. There's not just the population growing, but

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Speaker 2: also the other thing surrounding that, like Keelter for example.

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Speaker 2: We've been banging on about Keelter as well for quite

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Speaker 2: some time now. But on a long weekend or anywhere,

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Speaker 2: can really at Dundee you don't get very rarely can

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Speaker 2: you get into that access. It just completely drops out.

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Speaker 2: And quite often if you try to make a phone call,

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Speaker 2: it say's call failed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and that's a problem.

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Speaker 2: A lot of other surrounding issues at Dundee is the

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Speaker 2: community that feedback to the needs for some health service.

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Speaker 2: Now I know that's about the numbers and the population.

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Speaker 2: That's about all those other developments that are quite working

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Speaker 1: And I understand that back in twenty nineteen, because we've

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Speaker 1: spoken about this on air on numerous occasions, that the

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Speaker 1: Anti Primary Health Network WILL did a report into opening

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Speaker 1: a clinic out there that found that, you know, that

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Speaker 1: we didn't actually I think it found that we didn't

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Speaker 1: actually need a health service out there. However, the Health Minister,

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Speaker 1: as I understand it, has now said that you are

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Speaker 1: that they are going to consider clinical service options for Dundee.

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Speaker 1: Is this you know, this is obviously a step in

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Speaker 1: the right direction. Does it go far enough? Though?

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Speaker 2: Sorry, Kay, just correct you there. But in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 2: they did do that health needs assessment and it did

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Speaker 2: show that Dundee was a growth corridor and the health

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Speaker 2: facility was warranted.

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Speaker 1: Oh right, So so really that.

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Speaker 2: Was that was in twenty eighteen. Since twenty eighteen, there's

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Speaker 2: been a lot of development at Dundee, a lot of

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Speaker 2: things changed, and so.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, you know, really, I mean,

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Speaker 1: things have changed, things have grown. You would hope that

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Speaker 1: this is something that they're going to look a little

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean it really is warranted that we

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Speaker 2: have that health facility at Dundee. It's been shown, it's

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Speaker 2: been proven back in twenty eighteen, and now, you know,

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Speaker 2: we need those first responders out there. I can think

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Speaker 2: of many incidences over the last you know, gosh, I've

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Speaker 2: been down there for fifteen years where I call it

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Speaker 2: what is the close course? Yeah, you know, and sadly,

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Speaker 2: when something's going to go wrong, you know, something will happen.

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't want to Dundee the great little community,

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Speaker 2: but you know, we don't have a police station down there.

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Speaker 2: We do have a lot of people down there on

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Speaker 2: weekend on quad bites, and we've just been very fortunate

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Speaker 2: that those people that have needed help have got help.

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Speaker 2: Quite often it is to the support of locals helping out

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Speaker 2: those people, getting them the support that they need. Or

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Speaker 2: it's meeting that ambulance halfway at the turnoff, which you know,

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Speaker 2: you've got no phone reception. Again between the turnoff and

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Speaker 2: So I think I've probably done it twenty times in

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Speaker 2: my life, met an ambulance halfway. But you're just the

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Speaker 2: only way you know the ambulance is coming, as you say,

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Speaker 2: or flick my lights when I see you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, goodness mate. Well Emma, I really we are going

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Speaker 1: to have to leave it there. I really appreciate you

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Speaker 1: having a chat with us this morning. And and gee,

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Speaker 1: you know, I hope that we do see some traction here.

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Speaker 1: We have got the Health Minister on tomorrow, so we'll

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Speaker 1: certainly see if we can get an update from her. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Look, Dundee's a great little town. Some really cool things

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Speaker 2: are happening. We just need to make sure we keep

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Speaker 2: people safe.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Emma, thank you so much for having a chat

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Speaker 1: with us this morning. That is, of course, Emma can't

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Speaker 1: right there. And she is part of the Dundee Progress

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Speaker 1: Association committee, and I know that this is something that

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Speaker 1: the committee's been, well all the Dundee Progress Association have

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Speaker 1: certainly been calling for for some time