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Speaker 1: Joining me on the line right now is the Independent

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Speaker 1: candidate and Beverly Rata.

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Speaker 2: He joins me on the line. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 3: Bev, Good morning Katie and to your listeners. And I

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Speaker 3: much prefer when I'm speaking with you advocating for others

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Speaker 3: than blowing my own trumpet. But I guess it's a politics, isn't.

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Speaker 1: It it is, Bev. We've got seven minutes. Are you

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Speaker 1: ready to get started?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go all right now.

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Speaker 1: Why did you decide to put your hand up for

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Speaker 1: the seat of Nelson again?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Well, because, as she said, I ran in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty and I was really happy with my achievement of

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Speaker 3: forty two percent of the two candidate after campaigning twenty

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Speaker 3: three months because I had to resign from my job

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Speaker 3: as superintendent in the Australian Waterforce. And I believe democracy

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Speaker 3: is absolutely best served by diversity and having a contest

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Speaker 3: of ideas and trying to bring people together. And what

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Speaker 3: we've seen, certainly in Nelson over the last four years

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Speaker 3: with constant combativeness on party line, and I did detect

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Speaker 3: that in the incumbent this morning talking about the COLP

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Speaker 3: were you're actually elected as a local member to deal

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Speaker 3: with local issues. So I would have been happy to

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Speaker 3: support other independents, and I actually had a couple of

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Speaker 3: discussions with people they decided not to proceed, and it

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Speaker 3: was only a fortnight'd go on the day and couple

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Speaker 3: long with men that it became a parent. There wasn't

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Speaker 3: going to be no independent candidate. I've been working still

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Speaker 3: hard over the last four years progressing issues. I've been

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Speaker 3: on your show many ny times and some of those

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Speaker 3: issues that haven't had any progression. I've listened every day

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Speaker 3: of Parliament over the last four years and it has

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Speaker 3: been party line, not the local issues. So you know,

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Speaker 3: I'd really like to get to be elected and start

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Speaker 3: a focused as a local member on local issues, delivering outcomes.

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Speaker 1: Based on your previous experience and various jobs you know

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Speaker 1: you've got you've had, and and different community work that

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Speaker 1: you've done.

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Speaker 2: Why do you think you're the best person for the role?

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Speaker 3: Well, first and for almost you're right, I do have

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Speaker 3: a history of working with rural residents and both I've

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Speaker 3: worked with both CLP and later government and the public service,

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Speaker 3: and I have delivered outcomes and that's the things that

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Speaker 3: I see when missing I put my ability to deliver outcomes.

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Speaker 3: Use my board work both. I've worked in a ministerial

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Speaker 3: office back in the parent days. I've worked in the

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Speaker 3: key public Service, the Commonwealth Public Service, and while doing that,

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Speaker 3: I've been the primary pairer for four children undertaken. He's

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Speaker 3: volunteer work at these pre primary school over a decade

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Speaker 3: as yare of Communion College INT Cogso Rep, member of

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Speaker 3: Good Shepherd lud Employees Board, and I've worked with c Vier,

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Speaker 3: Jerry and Gary Higgins on the lot of the very

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Speaker 3: bad decisions that were made between twenty twelve and twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 3: And all our experience has given these skills in strategic planning,

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Speaker 3: you know, having a vision bringing people along with you.

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Speaker 3: Good governance, which is I'm sick of hearing about accountability

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Speaker 3: and Thankscounty, I actually deliver that. As a volunteer chair,

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Speaker 3: I was accountable for a twenty one million dollar budget.

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Speaker 3: I've got a good experience in financial management, hat and

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Speaker 3: most importantly advocacy. You're never going to get outcomes for

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Speaker 3: the people you should be serving by being combative on

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Speaker 3: every issue on every occasion. And what I do is

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Speaker 3: I get the facts and the evidence together, because then

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Speaker 3: you establish credibility when you're actually negotiating and advocating.

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

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Speaker 1: the electroates?

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Speaker 3: Without doubt at the moment cost of living you would

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Speaker 3: be aware. It doesn't matter what shop you go in.

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Speaker 3: In every aisle there's a comments being made about bring up,

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Speaker 3: but the size of the packages is down. And look,

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Speaker 3: I know that we're not alone. There's not a lot

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Speaker 3: of leaders that any territory government can pull. But I

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Speaker 3: do know that both pardons have permitted to arrange of

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Speaker 3: measures to help with cost of living. Now I absolutely

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Speaker 3: support them, subject to them being costed and transparent as

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Speaker 3: to what's going to be cut to pay for them,

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Speaker 3: because I've heard you many times lead us and not

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Speaker 3: the Airo for the costings. We haven't got those yet

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Speaker 3: and no way will I ever support anything that cuts

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Speaker 3: the frontline services to schools, police and hospitals like we

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Speaker 3: saw in twenty thirteen and fourteen. Because of that was

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Speaker 3: a lot of hard work trying to get those services back.

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Speaker 2: Beverly, do you live in the electorate.

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Speaker 3: I live across the highway in Goider. I've lived here

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Speaker 3: for thirty five years and I've advocated for twenty the

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Speaker 3: last twenty years for all members of the rural community,

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Speaker 3: Nelson Goida and actually even coming daily down at Berry Springs.

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Speaker 2: Why do you feel as though you're the best person

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Speaker 2: for the role.

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Speaker 3: Well, Katie, cost of living is the major ones. So

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Speaker 3: the longer term issues are planning and urbanization, and certainly

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Speaker 3: now the boundaries have also changed and Marlow Lagoon is included.

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Speaker 3: So there's a lot of issues to make sure that

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Speaker 3: people with existing amenity are not affected. And you know,

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Speaker 3: no developers right should overtake the rights of residents who

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Speaker 3: have already established their lifestyle. The other thing, all the

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Speaker 3: issues that were raised in twenty twenty about protecting and

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Speaker 3: enhancing our last well, none of those have really been actions.

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Speaker 3: Like the North world over, like they're not just an

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Speaker 3: issue at election time. Not schools not just an issue

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Speaker 3: at election time. And there's a big issue brewing with education.

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Speaker 3: I'm fairly up on public education, but with independent schools

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Speaker 3: because Marloe Lagoon has the Palmerston Christian College, Good Shepherd

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Speaker 3: went for a briefing with the Independent Schools Association last

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Speaker 3: week and I'm horrified they are going to be significantly disadvantaged.

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Speaker 3: So you're looking at public fourteen hundred students their families.

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Speaker 3: Because the recent agreement that was signed, it's fantastic. The

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Speaker 3: public schools are going to be fully funded. You know,

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Speaker 3: I have advocated for that for decades, but now the

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Speaker 3: independent schools are only going to receive an increment of

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Speaker 3: three percent, whereas the teacher four point three.

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Speaker 1: Beverly, we've only got about thirty seconds left, so I

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Speaker 1: might ask you very quickly, why should people vote for you?

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Speaker 3: Because I deliver outcomes on local issues and not simply

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Speaker 3: parroting what a party tells me to be combative on

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Speaker 3: in their best interest and the qualities I have. I'm honest,

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Speaker 3: I have integrity, and I work hard and I'm very

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Speaker 3: persistent to deliver outcomes to others.

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Speaker 1: Well, Beverly Rati seven minutes and five seconds, so we're

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Speaker 1: all around the same, amouch give or take two or

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Speaker 1: three seconds.

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Speaker 3: Much longer about what needs to happen? What will be

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Speaker 3: my brain?

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Speaker 1: Well, Beverly, we really appreciate your time. It's always good

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Speaker 1: to speak with you. Thank you so much for being

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Speaker 1: part of our Meet the Candidate series.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for the opportunity Katie, thank you, No worries