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Speaker 1: It's joining me in the studio right now is Catherine Tilmouth,

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Speaker 1: who is the executive director of the Minerals Council of

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Speaker 1: Australia's Northern Territory branch.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you. Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 3: It's all very exciting morning.

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Speaker 1: Now, before we get into what you came in to

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Speaker 1: chat about, speaking about the minerals sector and taking into

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Speaker 1: account the announcement that has literally just happened, I know

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Speaker 1: that that the Deputy Chief Minister, Nicole Madison has indeed

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Speaker 1: been the minister that's responsible for minds and minerals and

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Speaker 1: your sector. Are you hoping that she continues down that path?

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Speaker 3: Look, I think I speak on behalf of a lot

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Speaker 3: of industries that have Manno as their minister. She's been

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Speaker 3: in an outstanding minister for the mining sector and we'd.

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Speaker 2: Love to keep her.

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Speaker 3: She knows as being the treasurer where the money comes from,

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Speaker 3: who pays royalties, who keeps the lights on in the territory.

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Speaker 3: Mining sector plays a big part in that and so

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Speaker 3: she's been very supportive of our industry and there was.

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Speaker 1: Quite a bit of you know, talk about that earlier

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Speaker 1: in the week as when the budget was handed down.

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Speaker 1: I know that certainly there was a bit of a

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Speaker 1: shadow and it took a whole other path with Michael

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Speaker 1: Gunner resigning. But what we do know that the mining

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Speaker 1: sector does have a huge part to play when we

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Speaker 1: talk about the economy and moving things along in the territory.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Look, it's a huge employer of people. I think we've

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Speaker 3: got three five hundred direct employees in the mining sector

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Speaker 3: in the Northern Territory. But it's the indirect employment as well.

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Speaker 3: So you know, miners have to fly somewhere, they've got

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Speaker 3: to wash their clothes, they've got to live somewhere, they've

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Speaker 3: got to eat, they've got to say. All of those

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Speaker 3: things they all feed into the economy, so it's a

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Speaker 3: spin off jobs that also come from the mining industry

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Speaker 3: that play a huge part in the territory.

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Speaker 1: Well, and we know that it's a busy weekend for

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Speaker 1: you guys. This weekend the emergency rescue teams are going

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Speaker 1: to be put to the test, I guess you'd say

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Speaker 1: in Darwin in a competition to test how well sites

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Speaker 1: here and around Australia coat with major on site emergencies.

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Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit more about what this is

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Speaker 1: on the weekend.

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Speaker 2: So it's a pretty exciting competition.

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Speaker 3: There's teams from six different sites, well actually five different

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Speaker 3: sites and a bit of a joint ring in team

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Speaker 3: from Smaller Minds are participating this year. So what we

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Speaker 3: do is they set up scenarios, very lifelike scenarios. We

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Speaker 3: even have makeup artists coming in and making some of

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Speaker 3: our casualties look as realistic as possible, and these teams

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Speaker 3: get to test their emergency response skills.

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Speaker 2: There's various scenarios.

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Speaker 3: I've got to go down yesterday and watch them do

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Speaker 3: an underground rescue in the tunnels, which has some pretty

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Speaker 3: intense stuff to see, very very impressive. And over the

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Speaker 3: weekend we've got rescue from heights, fire management, HASMAC situations,

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Speaker 3: mass casualties, car crash rescue. So we make these scenarios

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Speaker 3: as realistic as possible because out in the mind sights

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Speaker 3: where these people are based, you can go through the

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Speaker 3: theory as much as you want, you can spend all

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Speaker 3: that time practicing, but until you're faced with a real

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Speaker 3: of a situation, you don't really know how you're going

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Speaker 3: to react. So while it is a competition, it's really

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Speaker 3: an important training exercise as well, now, where.

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Speaker 1: Have you got teams coming from? I know you said,

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Speaker 1: not just the northern territory. Where else are they coming from?

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Speaker 2: Well, we've got Mount i.

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Speaker 3: Maun Eiser mines, New Mont's south thirty two, so northwest

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Speaker 3: Queenslanderze is our ringing team, and Rio as well. And

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Speaker 3: it's really important you are and Mane is a girl.

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Speaker 3: It's to point out that fact that Mount Ey's is

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Speaker 3: a very unique situation where the mine is essentially right

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Speaker 3: next door to the town. In a lot of these

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Speaker 3: places that's not the case, and you don't have the ambulance,

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Speaker 3: you don't have the police, you don't have the firefighters

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Speaker 3: anywhere nearby. So a lot of the times these teams

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Speaker 3: aren't just responsible for rescuing any sort of incident that

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Speaker 3: happens at the mind side, but also accord on to

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Speaker 3: be the first emergency responders to situations out in the

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Speaker 3: public car crashes, lost fishermen, you know, rollovers.

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Speaker 2: They've responded to snake bite victims.

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Speaker 3: And they also have those sort of tactical skills that

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Speaker 3: they need to put in place, like someone's fallen from

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Speaker 3: a height or stuck up high and get those patients

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Speaker 3: from that situation to hand them over to CareFlight Royal

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Speaker 3: Flying Doctors and so they can go to hospital. So

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Speaker 3: it's really important that they have those skills so they

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Speaker 3: can serve the community as well, and a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: Don't really realize that, you know that they do have

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Speaker 1: such a huge They are so much a part of

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Speaker 1: the community and at the end of the day, everybody

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Speaker 1: that works at those minds essentially lives within the community

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Speaker 1: as well. And then if there is an incident that occurs,

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Speaker 1: they're the first ones in some cases that get called out.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, if you're in the middle of nowhere, you don't

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Speaker 3: want to be waiting for an ambulance to be coming

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Speaker 3: from Darwin when you've got a mind sit right next

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Speaker 3: door with the guys and girls that have the kit

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Speaker 3: and skills to come out and get you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly right. Well, Kat, it sounds like it's

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Speaker 1: going to be a very busy weekend. Where is this

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Speaker 1: all happening.

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Speaker 3: So we're set up at Charles Darwin University, the Casarina campus,

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Speaker 3: which is really quite exciting because previously we've held this

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Speaker 3: on mind Sights, so we haven't been able to open

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Speaker 3: it up to public, but we've.

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Speaker 2: Got it at CDU this year.

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Speaker 3: It's on all day Saturday and all day Sunday between

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Speaker 3: seven and four pm, and there's all of those various scenarios,

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Speaker 3: very life like. I did actually have to put a

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Speaker 3: bit of a warning out to the local neighborhood to

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Speaker 3: safety see something a bit odd, bit of an accidents.

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Speaker 2: It's okay, it's all out of control. Don't be alarmed.

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Speaker 3: It is the competition, so people can come down and

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Speaker 3: see these guys and girls in action and be blown away.

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Speaker 2: They're just some professional.

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Speaker 1: Time that it's sort of been opened up to the public.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we came into CDU last year, but we're we

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Speaker 3: now have more teams and more capability, so we're inviting

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Speaker 3: people to come down and have a look.

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Speaker 1: Well. Cat till Mouth Catherine Tillmouth, the executive director of

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Speaker 1: the Minerals Council of Australia's Northern Australia or Northern Territory Division.

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Speaker 1: We really appreciate your time this morning. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for coming in.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie soon