00:01NAYU and Palumpa communities have been in Darwin for some time now.
00:06We are now moving them to Stage 2 evacuations.
00:09What that means is from Friday, Palumpa evacuees will be relocated to the Batchelor Outdoor Education Unit in Batchelor.
00:17And from Monday the 23rd of March, the people who have been evacuated from NAYU will be at Batchelor Institute.
00:24Both of these facilities will afford a lot more privacy and support, be much more comfortable
00:30and allow us to provide the security, the catering and all of the support that evacuees need
00:35while giving them much greater privacy and stability as we move through this next phase of that evacuation.
00:42And we know that recovery is going to take some time.
00:45The daily is still severely flooded.
00:48And so we need people to be able to move to that Stage 2 evacuation process.
00:53They have been notified and those facilities are stood up.
00:57We also today will be evacuating around 500 residents from Numbawa.
01:03They will be arriving at Nightcliff High School today.
01:08The Australian Defence Force will be assisting with that evacuation, which we greatly appreciate.
01:12Again, the work with our Federal counterparts during this entire weather event has been fantastic
01:18and we appreciate it very much.
01:20The Department of Children and Families will lead those welfare operations
01:24and I will pass to Susan Bowden, the CEO of Education, shortly to be able to provide greater information about
01:32that.
01:32Needless to say, the move of Numbawa residents to Nightcliff High School will be temporary
01:37as we move people from Foskey Pavilion out to Batchelor Institute.
01:41We will then be able to, if we need to, move people from Numbawa out to Foskey Pavilion.
01:48If you don't look at the doors of the street, we can have a new space and space to reach
01:48the door.
01:48And that's why we need to move people from the level of the street.
Comments