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Speaker 1: And joining me on the line right now is our

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Speaker 1: first candidate for the Labor Party running in the seat

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Speaker 1: of Brennan. It is indeed Tony Severs. Good morning to you, Tony.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: How are you good? Mate? Now? Are you? Are you ready?

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Speaker 1: You've got about seven minutes to answer all of the questions.

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Speaker 1: You're ready to get into us? Yeah, let's go, all right,

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Speaker 1: here we go. Now, Tony, why did you decide to

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Speaker 1: put your hand up and run again?

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Speaker 2: Oh, Katie, I live in the elector. I live in Bakewell,

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Speaker 2: have for most of your life, so you know. And

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Speaker 2: there's a lot more to do, always in Palmerston. And

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Speaker 2: when I was in we've done a lot. We've done

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Speaker 2: a lot for Parmerson, you know, the police station, the

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Speaker 2: fire station, the hospital, we got done, the Bakewell school,

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Speaker 2: kiss and go. And there's a lot.

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Speaker 1: More to do.

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Speaker 2: And I've always come from hard working families. I'm working

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Speaker 2: class and i want to do more for Palmerston. And

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Speaker 2: I've got the energy, Katie. I'm up for it. I'm

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Speaker 2: a dedicated background and career in police and corrections and

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Speaker 2: health of course and youth justice in Sport. And then

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Speaker 2: I had a political history, and now I'm a CEO

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Speaker 2: Motorsports NT, which is a great job. I love this

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Speaker 2: job to Katie so and like everyone else, Katie, you know,

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of issues around the territory around crime,

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Speaker 2: and I want to save the territory for everyone, Katie.

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Speaker 2: And that's you know, my background is actually experience and

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Speaker 2: knowledge and professional in those areas and I've got more

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Speaker 2: to offer to our community around that stuff. So basically, Katie,

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Speaker 2: I'll get the jobs done. I roll up your sleeves

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Speaker 2: and get out there and get the work done.

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Speaker 1: What do you see as being the biggest issues in

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Speaker 1: the electrocity, Okatie.

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Speaker 2: I've been around the doors. I've been around about ninety

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Speaker 2: percent of the communities are colleague and knocked every door. Fake.

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Speaker 2: Well I'm doing now now he finished in Rosebery, of course,

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Speaker 2: and you know people are raising crime. They're really concerned

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Speaker 2: about crime and youth. What are we doing in those spaces?

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Speaker 2: And Katie, I've had a long history and background in

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Speaker 2: those areas, you know. And you know I was back

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Speaker 2: in the area and we had Wildman River, we had

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Speaker 2: farms out of Beatrice Hill Gunpoint, and I see the

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Speaker 2: benefits in that skills development, workout in those places, Katie,

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Speaker 2: get kids out Bush, get them doing real stuff. They'll

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Speaker 2: learn a new lifestyle out there. They'll actually enjoy some

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Speaker 2: stuff out there.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's something that I grew up when I was younger, Katie.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't always a good kid. My mum would send

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Speaker 2: me up to farms and stuff and I learned a

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Speaker 2: lot of new skills there. And when I came back,

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Speaker 2: when I matured, I came back and did my studies

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Speaker 2: in alcohol and the drugs of course. Or we're fifteen

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Speaker 2: years in health system and fifteen years in the criminal

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Speaker 2: justice system, so there's a lot of benefits to that, Katie.

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Speaker 2: We need to have more options for more youth, and

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Speaker 2: that's what it's about. And get kids out Bush. There's

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Speaker 2: jobs out Bush, there's real jobs out Bush, and there's

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Speaker 2: lot of skills out there that they can actually be

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Speaker 2: part of a new lifestyle and give back to the community.

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Speaker 1: Tony, we've received a message from somebody out in Palmerston

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Speaker 1: asking can you please ask both the potential members what

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Speaker 1: they're going to do about Itinerants camping out in Palmerston.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a real issue, Katie, and I see it.

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Speaker 2: Those days, and you know, there's there's services that now

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Speaker 2: we can ring and pick them up and get them

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Speaker 2: to get into different places. But you know, Katie, the

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Speaker 2: real issue is what we're doing out Bush to keep

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Speaker 2: We need services out Bush, we need housing out Bush,

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Speaker 2: We need we need these sorts of things happening out Bush,

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Speaker 2: which which the evil all the government's committed to, you know,

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Speaker 2: more housing, more stuff out Bush, schools out Bush and

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Speaker 2: stuff like that. And then and then people can stay

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Speaker 2: out Bush and live a life and have a happy life, Katie.

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Speaker 2: People come into town because there's more things to do

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Speaker 2: out Bush, these these are the real issues. They're long

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Speaker 2: term issues, Katie. We need to have short term issues

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Speaker 2: strategies and long term strategies as well.

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Speaker 1: Now, why do you feel that your best place to

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Speaker 1: try to combat those issues, particularly as part of a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Katie, Look there's always more to do, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm a big supporter of the you know, kids going

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Speaker 2: out bush and doing stuff out there. And you know,

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Speaker 2: we had to build the foundations in Palmerston. And if

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Speaker 2: he looked back when I was in we didn't have

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Speaker 2: a hospital, we didn't have a proper police station. We

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Speaker 2: couldn't even lock people up in the police station. We

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Speaker 2: didn't have enough public schools. We had to build a foundation.

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Speaker 2: So that's what we've done. We've given police a purpose

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Speaker 2: built police station to do their job and do it well.

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Speaker 2: We got the hospital done, which you know we've seen

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Speaker 2: the Shenanigan's done with the hospital. We actually got in

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Speaker 2: dug In and got it done. My school in Bakewell

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Speaker 2: was over full public school. We needed another public school.

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Speaker 2: We got that done in to Cooldi as well. So Katie,

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Speaker 2: we've built the foundations and now what we're doing is

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Speaker 2: putting money into the resources. So you know there's been

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Speaker 2: money put into more more police, a record investment of

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Speaker 2: five hundred and seventy million dollars unheard of, Katie, and

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm for that, Katie. I've come from those backgrounds

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Speaker 2: of uniform services. I always support uniform services. They do

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Speaker 2: a fantastic job. All their volunteers do a fantastic job

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Speaker 2: and we need to support those people to get their

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Speaker 2: jobs done and get them done properly.

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Speaker 1: Tony. Why should people vote for you? Ah?

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Speaker 2: Because I'm local, Katie, I live. I live in the electorate.

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Speaker 2: You know, a Polly that actually lives in the electrics.

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Speaker 2: A great thing to have people come around my house

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Speaker 2: all the time, even though I'm not the current member.

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Speaker 2: They come around with with local issues and we follow

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Speaker 2: things up. You know, I've heard about the sporting boarding

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Speaker 2: ground stuff around Palms. Then we need to sort out

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Speaker 2: you know, I've heard about you know, the through the

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Speaker 2: rugby clubs and through the AFL sort of stuff that

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Speaker 2: we can who you know, Eva Laula made a record

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Speaker 2: announced it yesterday again for a ten million dollar commitment

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Speaker 2: in the Palmerston and that that goes across a number

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Speaker 2: of areas. But I'm always one to advocate for local

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Speaker 2: people and what we need. And you know that I've

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Speaker 2: got a long sporting history and background in boxing and

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Speaker 2: football and rugby and I've represented the NT in those

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Speaker 2: sports in different different and long time ago, Katie, when

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Speaker 2: I was a younger fella O Katie. Yeah, I'm all

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Speaker 2: for that sort of stuff. Sport plays an important part

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Speaker 2: in our lifestyle and our kids and our adults, and

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Speaker 2: our volunteers and our officials, and we need to support

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Speaker 2: that as well, Katie.

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Speaker 1: Before I let you go, just on that with forty

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Speaker 1: seconds to go. You know, what is the Labor government

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Speaker 1: going to do? Well? What would you do if you

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Speaker 1: are the local member? And I know it falls under

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Speaker 1: a different electorate, But out there at the mold and Oval,

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Speaker 1: what needs to happen? You know they currently aren't able

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Speaker 1: to use that oval.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Crattie, Yeah, it's a real problem. We've got. What

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Speaker 2: I've heard is the water pump system doesn't work well

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Speaker 2: and we need to get that fixed and get get

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Speaker 2: it water and water and some sort of agreement with

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Speaker 2: counsel around how we manage that better in the future.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, so all our sporting clubs have another hoble

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Speaker 2: that they can use properly, Katie. But you know you

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Speaker 2: vote me in Katy's that's the stuff I'll work on

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Speaker 2: and I work hard, you know, work hard with the

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Speaker 2: Parmesan Sharks, the Palmston Raiders, the Palmsan Crocs. They're all

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Speaker 2: great teams, Katie, and we need to get behind them

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Speaker 2: in the AFL teams as well palms and magpoints.

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Speaker 1: Tony, we have just then the Buffstow will look. We

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Speaker 1: have just run out of time on seven minutes and

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Speaker 1: sixteen seconds, so I'll make sure that I give Marie

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Speaker 1: Claire the same amount of time. Tony Seaver's Labour's candidate

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Speaker 1: for the seat of Brennan. Lovely to speak with you

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Speaker 1: this morning. Thank you for having a chat with us.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Katie.

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Speaker 1: Thanks mate, much appreciated.