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Good morning. Good morning and welcome to Rural Queensland today. Ben Dobman with you this morning and it is Wednesday morning the first of October across Rural and regional Queensland. A very good morning to everybody listening to us through 4SB and King Rory, 4ZR in Rome, 4VL in Charleville, 4H I-N Emerald, 4LM Mount Isour, 4LG Longreach, 4GC Chartas Towers and the hot country network. Good morning to you. We've got a big show for you. A lot to get through this morning on Rural Queensland today. Next on Rural Queensland today. Welcome back to Rural Queensland today first of October. Kelly VV joins us this morning in the Isaac Regional Mayor and obviously the Claremont water issue has an interesting twist throughout the week. It was only last week that they were rated the best water in the state and as of Monday and Tuesday it looked like there was no water to that town. Well, things have improved considerably but how we got to this position is probably the question that the mayor and also a lot of people are asking.

Mayor, good morning and thanks so much for being with us. I really appreciate your time. No good morning. Thanks for having me. She was. There's a lot going on in your electorate. The last thing that you'd want to have to worry about is whether or not a town as proud and as strong as Claremont could get water. It looks like there's pumps running and by the end of the week it'll be back to normal programming but I've got to ask you, Mayor, how frustrated are you and how did these kind of issues happen? Yeah, look, I'm not going to pretend not to be frustrated at all because I think this is really hard on our staff. I think it's hard on community when we experience issues like this and to have two issues happen consecutively so close together. It is a lot of pressure and impact on everyone. But what happened in the latest incident was that both of the water pumps are trees accrued them which supplies the raw water to Claremont failed. So it's different to the first one. This isn't an issue at our water treatment plant. It's actually an issue at Theresa Creek them itself. So basically we've run two pumps there to pump the raw water up and they both failed on us.

The issue that we have at the moment and we have it across the region when we have extremely dry periods like we do now naturally water consumption remains high across our region. But when you've got a place like Claremont and people need to use more water but we've only got two days' storage up our sleeve. When we do have a technical event occurring we need to stop producing water to only have two days' up our sleeve isn't much to put us in a bit of an emergency scenario. And that's why I have to say we've been in and out of different levels of water restrictions over the last month. It's been a bit like the Hoki Pokey. We're in, we're out, we're up, we're down. And what we have to say though is that when we put out an alert through the Australian water system consumption immediately harms everyone he to the call is they do in Claremont and that allows us time and gives us space to be able to remediate the issue while still not draining on our water supplies.

Yeah, okay and all of that but how do we get and you you be frustrated and it in no way being pinned on the Isaac Regional Council here and I want to start by saying that you guys are about solutions not about causing problems you want to cause and make sure that this is fixed. How do we get it that both pumps don't fail that there is some sort of backup because that's an anomaly but and it's like oh the chances of that happening Kelly are very rare but guess what it did happen. So how do we learn from this that it never happens again and that the people of Claremont don't have to worry I mean the the Tuesday and Monday the restrictions it was close and line ball that the whole town was about to run out of water we never want to see that again. Yeah and we never at this point of I mean it's due to the capability of the team that runs our plans and is in our water department that water hasn't run out in any of these incidents so you know total you know it's totally on them that that they've managed to retain water to the town and you know at this point the quality of the water is never dropped either and you know I do know that they've just won an award in amongst all the water.

Yeah that's the ironic thing they literally have just won an award for and I was in shock that the best water in the state like literally the best drinking water in the state which doesn't surprise me if it's rainwater and it's being filtered and to be magnificent but they've got to be able to have and drink that water that's the thing that I that we want we everybody wants that. Yeah yeah and look at it just to clarify we haven't at this point you know had to or not been able to supply the community of climate with water what we have done is put in really drastic conservation methods to prevent that from happening in terms of the pump we've replaced one pump and it's now pumping water into the system we're working on short term repairs on the other one but we will be replacing that as soon as the water supply has been stabilized. We've got divers currently going down today just to make sure that there's no blockages or never have to go on the floor pipe.

Yep yep yep yep. Yeah but we're doing everything we can to understand how to pump can consecutively fail and I'm looking forward I would want to have those answers back in the next 24 to 48 hours to understand what's occurred there. So we've got the short term remediation solutions in place regarding the pumps but what we do need to respond to and what I have flags with the local government ministers you know as has my CEO is that we have to look at the the issue of storage water storage and the supply for climate. At the moment the two days water storage is the core issue when we do experience failures and we've got a water treatment plants six wastewater treatment plants across the region they are all aging I think diasite could be the US and Chinese. You know failures happen and our teams work around the clock to remediate but if we've got no supply left up our sleeves that's going to be problematic as we move forward so I think that's the longer term issue to address.

Yeah and the short in the short term when we experience issues these call outs for saving our water and water conservation are critically important and I think the community's done a great job responding to them but I think that you know being in control. You know being in constant different stages of water restrictions you know loses the impact and probably you know the importance of responding to those you know I think it can become a bit like white noise in the background and when you don't understand the precariousness of the situation and water consumption doesn't drop then you know we've got a problematic situation on our hands so. You know when we send out the Australian morning signals made I'm telling you now like that it's pretty much a short across the matter every level of government every level of how are they reacting how are they reacting I mean you know when when you have a situation like this. It does create a lot of attention towards the eyes that regional council and to clear more do you know what I mean like it is very very much so how did they react to it knowing for world this is not your fault.

And the upgrades that you're talking about water treatment plants that's going to have to come from within but she was it be nice if you had some support from state and federal and the feds as well on this issue because you just you're going to have to obviously look at upgrades but you wish that's going to take some time. Yeah and it's going to take some money is the same we're just like a lot of other councils with aging infrastructure with our handout for assistance but you know what we have demonstrated is you know three times this year because the third time really during the floods we were really conscious about water usage as people are hosting mud out of their houses and we were watching it extremely closely and carefully and there was in our view you know no ability to tell people or nor would we tell people. Not to be cleaning the mud out of their houses as soon as possible so when we when we do put out the Australian morning signals you know I have phone call from the local government minister I would say within minutes but that's very systems they want to know if there's anything that we need.

You know they're quite practice in the local government space when it comes to disasters there are mobile water treatment plants available that they've tested and tried in places like cans when there's been big a disaster events so you know I got to go to give it the state government was straight on the phone asking what what we needed and how could they support us and have continued to stay in communication since. But it did give us the opportunity to fly that we've got some bigger conversations and all long term conversations to be had to resolve the water storage issues and also some of the plant equipment like you know. Yes sure. And second clarify for Claremont as well. Do you know the one thing Kelly that you have done is that you've taken your community on this journey and you haven't ducked and weaved and you need to be congratulated. There is many a mayor in the past throughout this country that when things got a bit tough they go to ground you've been on the front foot from the beginning that's leadership in my opinion and you should be proud of yourself in that sense and I understand that you're growing up in the bush you get it you get the importance of water security and regional towns needed and they shouldn't be disadventing because they choose to live in the region so well done hopefully this problem is one of many that can get fixed sooner rather than later.

And we'll stay in contact with you but well done at least like everybody talking there yesterday and the day before they're like yeah the mayor's across it she's well and truly across it and I want to congratulate you for that so. Appreciate your time this morning on rural Queensland today and we'll catch up again shortly. Okay thanks mate. Good on you we'll take a break come back rural Queensland today. Rural Queensland today where we just spoke to the mayor of the Isaac Regional Council in Kelly VV and now joining us is the member for Gregory Sean Dylan. He understands more than anybody the need for water security in your town in the bush in the regions and what it has highlighted is that there has to be some action taken. Sean good morning thank you for being with us it's weird that we are on at the first of October 2026 and this week we've seen a town come precariously close to having no water whatsoever because of pump failure in this instance it was only a week ago that they were being touted as the number one water in Australia

because of how good their water was and and within a week they look like they were going to run dry now that's been alleviated but it's to water. It's to why that happened and how it can never happen again is the big questions good morning appreciate you coming on the show. Good morning dova yeah great to be with you look obviously concerning climate for the residents of Plumon and people around there you know they've had they have now into separate unrelated it would appear incidents but it that has jeopardised their immediate short term water security water availability I should say that's obviously something that it's a far from ideal situation for either the local council or the state or anyone to see that but full credit to the hard working water team at IZAC regional council for getting that back operational as quick as they could in both instances. We are surprised by this second incident happening I mean you understand it and obviously you've been talking to the IZAC mayor IZAC regional council mayor you've been consultation.

This is hard to point the finger at any one person because pump fire you can happen but to have two pumps go down in one instance that to me and not a backup of contingency planning is the is the concerning part because I regardless of all of everything that's gone on no one in clear my deserves to not have water at all now I didn't get to that point but the warnings and the national warnings that went out around it have become very clear that there needs to be an overhaul of that system in the way water is delivered to the regions. Look I think every water system, water delivery system and regulation system across our town areas and different distance aim is it does from cattle station to cattle station and there's various forms of redundancy and systems sometimes these view look at the artesian basin systems in the west it's pressure fed so even when the pumps go down there's still a degree of water availability a two pump system such as IZACs usually has the inbuilt redundancy of one value results in the other to have a catastrophic failure of both pumps is you know I mean it's not unheard of but it is very unusual.

It's very rare. Yeah it is and so you know certainly at times I think there is a need for do supply and it is to look at alternative redundancy systems there are instances where genuine bad luck Murphy's law call it what you want can jeopardize things the ability for large regional regional council such as IZACs to respond with both staff equipment and tankers from other treated locations within the council area certainly gives some I guess an emergency release and and well done to their ability to do that obviously really small communities and I mean micro communities in comparison to Clomont struggle to have that same redundancy ability but look I think that it difficult to say there's a blanket rule that needs to be implemented across council areas the councils themselves understand their issues very precisely there is and local governments back to it including my time in local government have been have been talking about the infrastructure clip that's facing their sector when it comes to water reticulation distribution and and also treatment and well I'm not stating that in this case it is an infrastructure clip situation it is something that we are across the state very aware of and are working through with communities in the Gulf in more of in their and you know

in the fast southwest councils one after another to not only identify but to help put in place alternatives or rectify situations that you know can challenge water security in the short to medium to and that's that that's one of the big things I mean you're rural you get it you've always had to look at your water and you watch it and anybody that's had rain water tanks we've all been down that we've all had to buy water at different stages God forbid we've had to settle down water you know it is very much real I just can't get over that in some ways that I don't want to blame anybody but is it of the Isaac council or is it the state government you know because obviously we need to get treatment plants and we need to make sure that you know the infrastructure is right now talking with the mayor. She said, look, the best ones are dyes are, but we've really got some dramas, but we haven't invested in water security for a while.

And these treatment plans are getting old. They're becoming archaic, and there's dramas with them. Now, unless they spend money, which has to come from within, that's going to be a huge cost to bore for a council. Now, is it on the state government to look at this? Another thing that you guys have to look at, like another thing that you have to help out because of past leadership has not spent the money when it needed to be spent? Look, I think we've clearly articulated that we consider ourselves equal partners in government. That doesn't necessarily mean that we co-fund every particular item, and it doesn't mean that we don't supply more than 50% of funding at times for different old turners. Areas that have business units of councils, such as, definitely, something that they have to do with the ultimate control over and determination of the style in which those business units operate? And the cost recovery mechanisms, the fees and charges, the return on depreciation,

all of those things, and understand that large regional councils have a large number of these. And that depreciation is a significant cost, which our government is looking to implement strategies to assist councils with that. Ultimately, the style and manner in which the upgrade replacement, whatever it might required that Isaac determine. We can work with that, the Department of Local Government and Water does that routinely in working with the needs analysis and an options analysis. We think that sometimes the solutions across the state are way over in engineered driving the costs further north, so we really appreciate good, genuine, local, practical advice from people like the Water Cruelid Isaacs Regional Council to give us what's the best, mostly reason to add a whole application of different engineering principles from consultants right across the state in what different communities need. We would value and have a demonstrated record of valuing at the Department of Local Government and Water and the state as a whole.

More direct specific advice from Councillors as to what the actual practical needs are. I'm not going to speak to us to what may, who or how or what may be funded moving forward here, but we obviously would follow the lead of what Isaacs think they need and respect that and see what we need to do to ensure that becomes a reality. Yeah, no question about it. Just quickly announcement came, you guys are developing your roads and those inland roads. You're getting bitumen on it. The last three Ks was done between, I think, outrun Clamont through there. You guys are truly a commitment. The goal is obviously long term that there is more roads that are bitumen than there is dirt. That's going to take some time, but you guys are truly a word. You're getting it done. So we are very solid that these roads need ceiling. The beef roads, corridors, country road issues that we intend to see through to full-sealed roads where the state has the ability.

We want to bring people and families home safe. Ultimately road safety is their number one priority, but of course capacity constraints, market access issues, the fatigue issues, the drivers, the animal welfare issues, the maintenance costs, the small business operators, all of them things factor into why we're ceiling roads. We understand the economic imperative, but we're not in a mental heart of this. We want families safe as soon as they get home safe as soon. That's the big thing. It's happening. Sean Dillon, I really appreciate your time this morning. Thank you so much for being with us. You guys are doing a great job. This water issue just another headache you didn't need, but I appreciate your time this morning on Rural Queensland today. Thanks for being with us. Welcome back to Rural Queensland today. There's no question biggest issues that we have here at the moment was that interest rate hike on Tuesday, 4.6%. The most it's been in 15 years and don't think the banks aren't going to pass it on.

Federal treasure of gym charmers has done nothing but drive this economy into the ground and they can go on this crane and renewable push, but I tell you what the ex-ISON, the tax that they're collecting and still it goes up. We're in a bad situation, cost of living through the roof, and there is a lot of people doing it extremely tough at this moment. The fact is that the Australian economy is nowhere near it's been and it's interesting, you know, there's a lot of statements that gym charmers has made and it's interesting that the courier mile have come out and you know it is very very very very concerning. So the courier mile go on fact check some of the things. Okay, here's what he said and whether or not it's reality. It is near universal expectation that rates

will go up around the world including Australia September 26. That's correct. So he said that Australia's official cash rate is 4.6 is higher than any other developed country except Iceland. It's 4% in the US, 3.75% in Britain, it's 1.25% in Japan. Can you believe that the highest? the highest. Now New Zealand have a rate of 2.75 and the inflation is 4.1. The US have the same inflation rate as Australia and their interest rates are cheaper. UK the same. It's embarrassing. Here's another one. We're not immune from global pressures but we are better placed and better prepared to confront them. That's wrong. Better than who? Have a look at the comparisons. Anywhere around the world developed nations are doing a better than what we are.

So gym charmers is lied on that one. I don't want to see Australia workers carry the can for decisions which are not being taken on the other side of the world to prolong the war which have been absolutely disastrous for the cost of living point of view from an economic point. So they're blaming the war. That's not true. The University of New South Wales economics professor Richard Holden is arguing charmers is gaslighting Australia's by offering them a different opinion. He said you could get inflation under control. The government spending was under control and that's the thing they do not know how to stop spending. That's the biggest thing. Australia are playing a hefty price for nine months of Russian aggression. It's not true. Before the 2022 election Anthony Albanese government promised to cut energy bills by $275 a year. Didn't do it. Keep them rising. Now depending on rebates and where you live it rose 32% in 12 months. So they said they're going to cut it and it rose 32% in 12 months. That's what we're dealing with. Then the rates rose higher

than inflation over two years. In July 2026 the Commonwealth Bank said electricity seed prices had risen 22% in 12 months. Go back to 2022. Energy bills are going to be cut. No, no, no. That's not right. Now here's what else he said. My responsibility is to make the reserve bank job as easy as possible. That means not splashing cash around unnecessarily. He said that in 2022. That's incorrect. The reserve jobs, the reserve banks job has been far easier given it lifted rates for the fourth time this year. Charmers has splashed cash around. The government debt has passed a trillion dollars. A trillion dollars. Now when the Albanese government came to power the nation's debt was $558 billion. It is now a trillion dollars. Like what part do we not understand of that? The reality is, there's another statement that the government's changed hands at a time of

high and rising inflation and rising interest rates. That's true. Official interest rate was 0.10%. Now after the 17th rates rise as well as three rate drops the Albanese government came to power. It sits at a rate significantly higher than Hong Kong, Israel, South Korea, New Zealand, Canada, Denmark, Taiwan, Sweden, Singapore as well as the US, Britain and Japan. That's the fact. He is the laughing stock of the world and Jim Charmers can say whatever he wants but he is doing nothing to provide any confidence. You wonder why people are leaving in droves. You wonder why the loophole into their spending and the continual spending is starting to really, really cause grief. Well, the reason is that they are not doing the job that they are entrusted to do. You've got to understand

this what this federal government and I'll give you a little bit of an idea with the GST. The ACT receives the same GST beach protection funding per person as Queensland. The ACT has no coastline on the ACT. The same amount of cash per person for coastline protection as what Queensland is in the GST caravan. Now on Wednesday, yesterday, he attacked the independent Commonwealth Grants Commission who distributes the GST after Queensland. 2.3 billion fall was the largest cut of any jurisdiction. Now it's no surprise. They're run by an LNP. Now the GST met the dology. The land locked ABC, it receives the same cash per capita for coastal management of Queensland. What the bloody hell is going on? Last year, the ACT received an extra

3 million from environmental protection while Queensland lost 9 million. The ACT poured in territory of Jarvis Bay was administered by the Commonwealth. Queensland's main land coastline was littered with communities, public infrastructure and national assets, but yet they don't get the money. This is the problem. Queensland's growing 39% GST pool has grown by 80%. Queensland has grown by 39%. New South Wales has a 66% more. Victoria 116. Western Australia 397. We are going backwards in the last three years and there's no surprising why. And the government is doing everything they can from a federal level to see us go down the gurgler. It's not right, it's not cool and it needs to change. I'm about sick to death of it. I really am. And the sooner we get this fix, the better off we're all going to be. We're going to

take a break, come back. This is Royal Queensland today. Welcome back to Royal Queensland today. It's pivoted a little bit. Brian Cautist joins us this morning. I think everybody was in a little bit as shock after the first time in 15 years. The interest rates have gone the highest they've been in 15 years, 4.6. We talked about a little earlier, but have we got it wrong? The mineral sector is struggling, housing and affordability, health. You've heard it every day. We can't seem to get ahead of ourselves at the moment. Brian Cautist joins us this morning and obviously he knows this all too well about where the state is on its knees and our state is right on its knees at the moment. Good morning my friend. Thank you for joining me this morning on Royal Queensland. I appreciate you. Good morning Ben. Ben, my thoughts go out to families paying all their homes, the small businesses who are paying a mortgage and trying to keep their staff and are farmers across this great country who are being squeezed between rising costs and commodity prices. And the truth is the reserve bank can only address inflation with monetary policy. That is

interest rates, but it's the federal government that's spending too much money and driving interest rates up because of the inflation. The government's causing the inflation and until they address their own policies, we're going to be in this situation. Now, the exercise on fuel is not only harming farmers, it's harming the transport companies. It must cost you the blanners to take bananas from Tully to Melbourne. And Lindsay Brothers to take the sweet potatoes from here, from our farm down to Melbourne. And that's passed on to the consumer. Then you've got continual exercise on fuel and exercise on beer wines and spirits which is inflationary. And at the same time, this government is employing all and all public servants. We don't need an increase in public servants. And all that is doing is pushing up inflation. I think the government is spending 29

percent more in their budget than when we've got to look at this. Why are they doing that? Why can't they just go right enough? Enough. I think that they're so blinded ideologically that they're just driven by socialists left policy and they don't understand that it's hurting people. My mate Pro who produces 13% of us sweet potato market, he implores up to 40 people but he's freight builders greater than his wages. And he has 17 electric motors. You imagine what he's saying? And this mad green renewable energy stuff is just pushing up the price of electricity. And that's feeding into inflation as well. I mean, I just think they're blinded to their own ideology and when anyone criticises them, they're ridiculed. And you know, it's not racist for Australians

to want to know who's coming into this country. That's being patriotic. And we've got 160,000 people homeless, men, women and kids, young and elderly and yet we're bringing in more people without the infrastructure to house the people that are here. It's crazy stuff mate but it's hurting in regional and rural Australia and I know that Redbridge latest polling shows that the labor vote's going south and it's going to go further south because people have woken up to how incompetent this government is but I really feel sorry for the families that are trying to keep their head above water, paying off their homes, rare and kids sending them to school and every time rates go up, it makes it harder for them to keep their home. Yeah and that's the big thing and it continues to go up. It went up. Jim charmers has a lot to answer for. I mean, he got off a plane and got abused. This is where the world is getting to. He was abused by a person in the general public.

I don't think he has an understanding along with Chris Bowen, along with Anthony Albanese about the effect that they are having on the regions more than anywhere. People are going to lose their homes. People can't afford to put food on their table yet they've got this renewable push and it'll be all right. We'll bring more people into this country. Well guess what? It's failed dismaly and we are going into a recession. That's as bad as it can get for me. We're absolutely right and you know, Makadame is a growing crop in the Bunga River area and Makadame is need three tons in out of water. The sugar can't be. We have been building more dams not just to produce food for increased population but for drinking water as well and there's no plan about future dams. No plan about industry. We've almost lost our whole steam industry and our minivestry is in trouble and yet they don't seem to understand but when we're going we're going backwards at a rate of knots and yet we've got all the resources

here then. We've got everything here in this country and we've been controlled by the United Nations and the sad thing about that is when it was formed after World War II was formed for great reasons but as more and more countries joined the United Nations the general assembly now is run by the African and Arab leagues. They're the ones who run it and they hate western civilization. We shouldn't take any notice of anything the UN says. Yeah. And the same goes for power. Like how on earth could we operate with wind and solar and every 15 to 20 years and we've had this conversation a couple of times you've got to replace the solar farms and you've got to replace the wind farms. It's going to cost a fortune and I don't know what they're going to do with those big wind turbines when they when they've finished. You know I don't know how you'd pull them down for a start and what they're going to do with the solar panels where are they going to put them?

That's the big thing mate. We don't have any idea where it at. I mean we saw the crazy situation over the last three days where that town of Claremont ran out of water because of pump failure and and you know lack of money on infrastructure and this is just going to happen more and more in the regions that money hasn't been spent. It hasn't. Well roads, the health system shot, the water system, treatment plan to shot and the councils are trying like anything to try and get on top of it. It's not their problem. It is not their problem. They've inherited this mess from a government. That's right and if all Australians want to see how bad it's going to get just have a look at Victoria where you've had a socialist government for more than 10 years and they can't even fill potels up. The roads are full of potels. They're not capable of filling up a pot of but they're setting up a treaty with the indigenous people that's going to cost millions of dollars even though the voice referendum was chucked in the rubbish bin. Like these people are

dead set crazy and that's the way the country set it, the way Victoria's gone. Victoria is an economic basket case and I don't think it can ever be fixed. You know the only great things going for Victoria is the limit and race course at Mooney Valley and the MCG but outside of that the entire economy is flat. Can I ask you this how do we get it fixed sooner rather than later? Well what we've got to hope for is at the next election that there is a coalition of Liberal, National and One Nation and Independent people who will sit down in a mature manner and work out some decent policies set up a coalition after the negotiations and you would assume that the majority of ministers would be liberals because they've been in and had experienced. Fortunately, the thing is that Barnaby Joyce has been a deputy PM and he would also be

you know the great asset to any right of left government and start planning for the future. You know like when we came out of World War II, Ben Chisley helped rebuild Australia. There's no amount in this game, you know and we need some vision like that again and I'm just hopeful but in 18 months time that there is a change of government and sensible people sit down and work out because Aussies are good at it, it's just that we've had bad leadership sit down and work out how to work together mate that's that's what we've got to do you know we've got to work together and you know that you know the sort of spirit we need the spirit we saw for the last 40 minutes from Newcastle on Sunday. I've never seen such a gupsy performance from a batwing team that will wouldn't spin in the last two and that's the Aussie spirit that's underneath the surface right across this country you know Aussies are quitters and we're not carried but we need

leadership we need a government that will lead us and we're lacking that at the moment. We certainly are we're doing more than lacking it is clear that we have lost our way. Appreciate your time Brian you talk a lot of sense thanks so much for being with us this morning and hopefully we can have some positive chats about good things that are happening from a federal level but it's not going to be in the not too distant future I can tell you. Thanks Ben any time mate. Brian. Brian Cautist this is Rural Queensland today on the Resonate Broadcast Network you're with Ben Dobbin it's the first of October. Well that's it for us here this morning at Rural Queensland today I hope you've enjoyed the show I certainly have will we back again tomorrow morning from 9am with Rural Queensland today Gary Hargraze will take you through to lunchtime have a great day I'll be in Sydney tomorrow for the grand final so I'll be broadcasting from there remember when the Wheat is right keep the headers rolling in the paddock we'll catch you again at 9am tomorrow morning Rural Queensland today with Ben Dobbin see you later.

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