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Speaker 1: now is the member for Blaine, Matt Kerl. Now he

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Speaker 1: has just seen the seventy one year old man and

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Speaker 1: has been given permission to give us an update on

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Speaker 1: how he's going. Matt. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Morning Katie, and hello to you listeners.

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Speaker 1: Mate, you've just been up at the hospital. Tell us

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Speaker 1: what you know and what you've been given permission to

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, I will be careful with my comments because

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Speaker 2: there is an active police investigation. I just want to start. So,

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Speaker 2: his name's Trevor. I can give his first name. So

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Speaker 2: Trevor's been a member of a local seniors association in

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Speaker 2: Palmerston for a lot of years, and so I met

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Speaker 2: him a few years ago through that group and he's

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Speaker 2: always active coming or coming into our office and organizing

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Speaker 2: ponchos for people with disabilities. You know, he's just a

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Speaker 2: real local champion. He's he's got a lot of spirit.

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Speaker 2: You know, Like when you see Trevor around, he's always

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Speaker 2: got a you know, a little joke and a quick wit.

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Speaker 2: So I was just in at the hospital. I thought

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Speaker 2: he was in surgery recovery, but when I went in there,

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Speaker 2: they actually moved him back to ICU because they were

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Speaker 2: just worried about him. He was in surgery most of yesterday.

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Speaker 2: He's awake and talking now. He's still still very weak.

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Speaker 2: So there's just just a few things, you know. He's

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Speaker 2: so he suffered a lot of a lot of cuts

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Speaker 2: to his arms and to his legs, so you know,

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Speaker 2: and some of them down to the bone, you know,

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Speaker 2: he's got a few like Nick's on his ear. So

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Speaker 2: he's When I was leaving, he said, I'd shake your hand,

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Speaker 2: but I don't know if I still have hands because

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Speaker 2: they're they're wrapped up under a lot of stuff. And

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Speaker 2: he's had a lot of he's been here with the

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Speaker 2: plastic surgeons repairing all the Sorry, it is a bit difficult,

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Speaker 2: that's all right, mate, Yeah, it's absolutely terrible.

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Speaker 1: You sound like you're shaken up after speaking to him,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Paul Trevor like, so, I mean, what can

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Speaker 1: you tell us of what you know that happened yesterday morning?

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Speaker 2: All right, So again, I will be careful because there

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Speaker 2: is an active police investigation So what I'm aware of

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Speaker 2: is early in the morning, some individuals broke into Trevor's house,

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Speaker 2: so he said they woke him up around five a m.

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Speaker 2: And they were looking for some things around the house

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Speaker 2: and he so he's getting on now, but he's got

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Speaker 2: a he's a real fighter, and he's not the sort

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Speaker 2: you know, even on threat to his life. So it

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Speaker 2: seems that, you know, they kind of an assault occurred allegedly,

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Speaker 2: in the end, I'm guessing they took his car, keys

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Speaker 2: I really want to just pay credit to his neighbor, because,

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Speaker 2: like Trevor said, he was after the attack, he was

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Speaker 2: then he heard his neighbor calling out, and his neighbor

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Speaker 2: say thank you so much to the empty police and

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Speaker 2: to the paramedics. They just and you know, the staff

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Speaker 2: and Artie hat They've just done an amazing, amazing job.

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Speaker 1: Oh mate, that it sounds utterly terrible. What has happened

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Speaker 1: He's he's suffered wounds to his arms, to his legs

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Speaker 2: Yeah, That's what I'm hearing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Matt, Like, how easy at this point in time?

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Speaker 2: What did you know?

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Speaker 1: I guess it's hard to say he's in intensive care,

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Speaker 2: So he's conscious and his spirits are good. That's the

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Speaker 2: but you probably have to recover a bit more before

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Speaker 2: he can have that. Yeah, I know. So his attitude

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Speaker 1: Well, mate, I mean, if you're talking to him again,

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Speaker 1: this has happened so please, if you're talking to him,

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Speaker 1: let him know the whole of the Northern Territories thinking

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Speaker 2: The trouble with so Trevor, he's such a community servant

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Speaker 2: of asking what I could do for him, and he

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Speaker 2: said no, no, no, no, don't worry about me, you know,

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Speaker 2: And he's telling me things that needs to be done

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Katie, Well, Matt.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for having a chat with us

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Speaker 1: you know, he said he doesn't want thatsh He sounds

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what I'd say if people want to help out

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Matt, thank you very much for your time

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Speaker 1: and let's hope next time we talk that it's on

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Speaker 1: a brider note. Please pass on our love and well

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Speaker 2: We'll do all right. Thank you, Katie, thank you.