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Speaker 1: So we're going to kick things off with Sandy Griffin,

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Speaker 1: who is the ALP candidate. Good morning to your Sandy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good morning Katie, and good morning to your listeners

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Speaker 2: or on you for this opportunity.

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Speaker 1: No worries at all, Sandy, You've got seven minutes. Are

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Speaker 1: you ready to get started?

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Speaker 2: I sure am?

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Speaker 1: Why have you decided to put your hand up to run?

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Speaker 2: I'm standing Katie because I love the NT. I've grown

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Speaker 2: up in Tennant Creek, I've lived in Goider for about

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Speaker 2: twenty years, twice in Virginia, and I moved to Amraka

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Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen. I've seen the investment into Darwin and Palmerston,

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Speaker 2: but I haven't seen that same level of investment into Gouda.

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Speaker 2: And I believe we need a representative who's rurled through

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Speaker 2: and through just like me. But we need to be

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Speaker 2: at the table. We need to be part of government,

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Speaker 2: influencing decisions before they're made. And that's why I've put

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Speaker 2: my hand up. I want to be at the table

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Speaker 2: proactively advocating for Goida and our fair share because there's

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Speaker 2: no point arguing the toss after decisions being made.

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Speaker 1: Why do you think you're the best person for the

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Speaker 1: role based on your previous experience in the community or

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Speaker 1: through the work that you do.

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Speaker 2: Well to start. I'm honest. I'm a hard worker. I've

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Speaker 2: worked hard all my life, and if I get this job,

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Speaker 2: it's going to be the most important job of my life.

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Speaker 2: But I'm also the only candidate in Goider with direct

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Speaker 2: experience in every one of the industries and activities in Goider.

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Speaker 2: I've got a thirty year career environmental science. I have

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Speaker 2: a PhD and a law degree, so I have the

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Speaker 2: technical understanding of all of the issues and I can

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Speaker 2: make meaningful contributions to policy decisions. I've worked on some

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Speaker 2: of the biggest and most complex and environmentally sensitive projects

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Speaker 2: in the MT, and I'm pretty good at finding good

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Speaker 2: practical solutions to complex issues. I've worked in government at

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Speaker 2: senior levels, but I've also been subject to government processes

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Speaker 2: as a business owner, so i can balance both of

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Speaker 2: those things. I've got a detailed understanding of planning processes.

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Speaker 2: I can navigate the Planning Act and the Planning Scheme.

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Speaker 2: I understand groundwater. I've worked with brilliant hydro geologists in

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Speaker 2: the past. I've worked in biosecurity weeds and fire. I've

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Speaker 2: got firsthand understanding of mining and pastoral activities. I'm really

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Speaker 2: interested in criminal law and family violence, and I've spent

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Speaker 2: the last seven years supporting my overly parents, both of

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Speaker 2: whom have dementia, so I'm very across steams issues as well.

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Speaker 1: Now, do you live in the electrode?

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Speaker 2: Of course I do, excellent.

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Speaker 1: I'm asking all the candidates for twenty years, yep, asking

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Speaker 1: all the candidates the same question. Now in terms of

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Speaker 1: some of the issues that really do relate to the

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Speaker 1: electro what would you say are the biggest issues in

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Speaker 1: the electrode.

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Speaker 2: Well, because we're such a diverse electorate, I don't think

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Speaker 2: there's any single issue. We've got a range of them.

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Speaker 2: Community safetyly affects everyone. But I am confident that the

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Speaker 2: approach the labor team, led by Evil Orler is taking

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Speaker 2: is the right one. I don't believe throwing people into

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Speaker 2: jail solves problems. We've got to have smart solutions, and

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Speaker 2: the approach we're taking I think is a good one.

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Speaker 2: By security, particularly for agribusiness and pastoral activities in Goid,

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Speaker 2: is really big. That issue of bisecurity can undermine it,

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Speaker 2: really really quickly. So we've got to have good plans

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Speaker 2: in place and be ready road safety. If you think

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Speaker 2: about everything that happens in Goluder agribusiness, We've got cattle trucks,

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Speaker 2: we've got extractive industries, we've got a huge tourism sector

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Speaker 2: and a full range of support services really promoting tourism

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Speaker 2: and tourist activities. All of these use roads along with

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Speaker 2: our community, and we have a really high incidence of

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Speaker 2: fatalities on our roads in Glider, so I think roads, say,

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Speaker 2: is a big one. We've also got weeds fire subdivisions.

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Speaker 2: Nobody wants to see the rural area turned into another

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Speaker 2: suburb of Palmerston, and that's something I'm fiercely advocating against.

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Speaker 1: And that is certainly a question that we've got this

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Speaker 1: morning for all of our candidates. It's actually one that's

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Speaker 1: come through from Jerry Wood, and I'll be asking everybody,

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Speaker 1: do you support the five hundred large suburban blocks, so

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Speaker 1: four hundred square meter blocks, four thousand, I should say

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Speaker 1: square meter blocks shown in the final draft of the

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Speaker 1: Humpty Do Activity Center as proposed by the Planning Commission.

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Speaker 1: And do you think this many large suburban blocks is

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Speaker 1: going to affect negatively the amenity and character of the

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Speaker 2: I think there is a place for smaller blocks. If

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Speaker 2: I look at my own elderly parents, I don't want

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Speaker 2: them to go into urban nursing homes. They want to

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Speaker 2: live rural. They've lived rural all their lives. There is

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Speaker 2: a place for it. But I don't think the intensive

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Speaker 2: development that's being proposed is necessarily the right thing. We've

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Speaker 2: got to do planning right. I was encouraging electors early

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Speaker 2: on to get in and have another say before that

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Speaker 2: closes on the third of August. Gives the Planning Commission

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Speaker 2: your feedback. It's really important the community is heard on

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Speaker 2: this one. Now.

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Speaker 1: One of the other questions I've got from listeners, do

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Speaker 1: you support the incorporation of Marachai into Litchfield Council boundaries.

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Speaker 2: No. I advocated against that. I put a submission in myself.

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Speaker 2: I supported the Marrachai Progress Association with their views on it.

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Speaker 2: I attended public meetings on it. The fact is that

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Speaker 2: there isn't the value add that putting us in a

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Speaker 2: shire would give us. The arguments for it just didn't

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Speaker 2: stack up all right.

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Speaker 1: We're at about five minutes for around a minute twenty

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Speaker 1: to go. Why should people vote for you?

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Speaker 2: Well, as I've said, Katie, I'm the only candidate that

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Speaker 2: has the work experience, both in government and private sector,

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Speaker 2: across every single part of the issues that arise in

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Speaker 2: our community. I really focused on keeping rural rural. I

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Speaker 2: don't want to see massive division of little time, tiny

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Speaker 2: little blocks in the middle of rural areas. Apart from

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Speaker 2: the issues associated with loss of biodiversity and all the

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Speaker 2: environmental issues that come with that, we need to keep

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Speaker 2: the rural fabric the way that it is, but at

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Speaker 2: the same time sensible subdivision. So you look at parents

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Speaker 2: who are looking at their kids trying to help their

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Speaker 2: kids become landowners. They might want to subdivide a forty

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Speaker 2: acre or a twenty acre block into two ten acre blocks.

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Speaker 2: We've got to be sensible about it and keep rural rural.

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Speaker 2: So voting for me, I will work really really hard

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Speaker 2: for the electorate. I'm not afraid to make hard decisions

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Speaker 2: and I am not a pushover either, so I will

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Speaker 2: argue very very strongly for this community.

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Speaker 1: Well, Sandy have finished just in time, with about three

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Speaker 1: seconds to go. So Sandy Griffin, the ALP candidate. Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: My absolute pleasure, Katie, thank you, thank you,