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Speaker 2: We're having an animated chat as usual. The ads were

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Speaker 3: Good morning Katy.

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Speaker 1: Now mate, firstly, I do want to ask you about

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Speaker 1: the go How much of the fees gone up here?

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Speaker 4: Look, they haven't gone up simply the people of the

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Speaker 3: We have approached the person.

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Speaker 4: And we will discuss with him and if he's overcharged,

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Speaker 4: we will reinvest the money. To make it clear though,

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Speaker 4: we went back again and make it quite clear and

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Speaker 3: So people are not overcharged.

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Speaker 4: It was it's unfortunately we're apologized forout stubid situation. It happened,

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Speaker 4: but the person certainly will be reimbursed and will be

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Speaker 3: It has been made very clear now what people are

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Speaker 4: We're talking about commercial vehicles, commercial operator, not every day operators.

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Speaker 4: The other thing I tell you is that actually down

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Speaker 4: its own tip, litz Field does not have.

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Speaker 3: Its all tip. Everybody uses that the downs the council tip.

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Speaker 4: So that means that people from down operators, from down

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Speaker 3: So it's Palmerson, so it's Let's Field.

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Speaker 1: So at this point in time, because we know it's

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Speaker 4: Well, one hundred and three actually should be read like

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Speaker 4: if you turn up with a vehicle, you charge one

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Speaker 4: you pay more. It's unfortunately happened. It's a pity he

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Speaker 2: But so has it gone up? It's gone up from

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Speaker 3: Was the old system. The last year we charge. If

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Speaker 4: To the eight dollars, doesn't matter what happens. But these days,

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Speaker 4: if you get a car in and you've got rubbish

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Speaker 2: So one hundred and three.

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Speaker 2: But hang on, So that does sound like it's gone up.

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Speaker 3: No, it's going Last year was ninety eight dollars a ton,

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Speaker 1: But you're going to be getting in contact with you.

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Speaker 3: I apologize if we have the council, I apologize. It

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Speaker 4: The man is the person is not going to be disadvantaged,

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Speaker 3: And now it's very clear what people charged when.

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Speaker 1: They got to now Corn another thing that's got our

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Speaker 2: Have you been aluded to this?

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Speaker 3: No, I haven't been alerted to that one.

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Speaker 2: So what happened? What did jays happened to you?

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Speaker 4: You know how our palm trees are wrapped in fairy lights,

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Speaker 3: I went there and I look why they're not.

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Speaker 1: So with these, with the fairy lights, I mean, how

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Speaker 2: Get fixed a few of.

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Speaker 4: Them very easy, they just reconnect the wise. But the

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Speaker 4: thing is, come on, guys, we want the beautiful city.

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Speaker 4: If you don't want the beautiful city, you want to

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Speaker 1: Con I do want to ask you about the decision

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Speaker 4: I've been listening to debate too now between me and you,

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Speaker 4: But as a territory I don't want to sit territory

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Speaker 4: for the government. These other have some areas well defined areas.

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Speaker 4: People can go there and let their fireworks so they're prepared.

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Speaker 4: They can have let's say, firefighting equipment and everything else

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Speaker 3: But to let people large.

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Speaker 4: Fireworks here and Darwin Palmerston in Humpty do in house

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Speaker 4: But to let everybody go wild, go out bulls and

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Speaker 2: That's the thing.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's got a lot of people concerned.

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Speaker 3: Well tonight, we've got a very big counsel because you

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we're going to make a decision about the

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Speaker 4: beautiful Public card to be put in the Bisitanial Park.

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Speaker 4: There are two items that are absolutely magic. We're going

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Speaker 3: Yes, and the search street we protect a tree.

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Speaker 4: We're going to do some work on there because workers

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Speaker 4: to have a look at some parklets. You know how

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Speaker 4: If you part of an organization does something fantastic the community,

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Speaker 3: And that's a really great idea to recognize great editory.

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Speaker 1: I tried to nominate somebody fantastic last year, but he

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Speaker 1: don't you to be eligible?

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Speaker 1: But the events that he organizes are in daw and

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Speaker 4: It's a city of Darwall, So we expect you to

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Speaker 3: And certainly, one.

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Speaker 4: Thing I want to tell you now is really really new.

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Speaker 4: Nobody else knows. You're the first one to know. We're

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Speaker 4: overcome some of the problems that may have. You know,

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Speaker 4: they've come out from difficult situations, they fought for a

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Speaker 4: long time in battlefields and they need to go back

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Speaker 4: into real life. So we've got a program for Indigenous

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Speaker 3: And now we will do one for the soldier.

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Speaker 2: On what prompted you to decide to do this.

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Speaker 3: Well, look, we're a defense city.

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Speaker 4: We've got a lot of people here. They served here,

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Speaker 4: they've got good leadership skills, they've got other skills. We

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Speaker 4: back into real civilian life. And the next thing I

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Speaker 4: want in my mind is I would like to actually

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Speaker 4: see how can we engage young people. How can we

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Speaker 4: let's create like the Green Army, a youth army and

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Speaker 4: get people that they made a mistake in their lives.

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Speaker 3: They probably get a small sentence and.

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Speaker 4: Get engaged and give them a way out of crime

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Speaker 4: if we can say so so, Ti some some skills

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Speaker 4: and get them in a team of adults that can

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Speaker 4: be as mentors and see how quickly they can change

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Speaker 4: their minds.

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Speaker 1: Well convat scholars, Lord Mayor of Darwin, always good to

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Speaker 1: catch up.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your time, my pleasure. Thank

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Speaker 2: you