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Speaker 1: The country Liberal Party has reportedly failed to file their

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Speaker 1: political donations it may have received, as required by the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory Electoral Commission. Now. Full details of financial gifts

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Speaker 1: received by political parties in the six months to December

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Speaker 1: thirty one were published this week on the Northern Territory

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Speaker 1: Electoral Commission website and reveal that Territory Labor received seventy

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Speaker 1: three thousand dollars from one hundred and twenty three donors,

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Speaker 1: a bit more than seventy three grand. The Greens received

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Speaker 1: seventy thousand dollars seventy one four hundred and fifty nine,

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Speaker 1: a large portion of that from their national branch. You

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Speaker 1: can see the lists for the Independence Robin Lamley, Mark Turner,

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Speaker 1: keesiopuric Inya, Mark Gyoula. They have all been submitted and

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Speaker 1: show that they didn't receive any nominations in the past

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Speaker 1: six months or donations. I should say, so, why didn't

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Speaker 1: the COLP declare their donations?

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Speaker 2: Well, we wouldn't usually have a political.

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Speaker 1: President on the show twice in one week, and we

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Speaker 1: did request, as I said, to have the Labour Party on.

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Speaker 1: But there are certainly questions that remain unanswered here. So

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Speaker 1: the President of the CLP, Shanestone joins me again in

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Speaker 1: the studio. Good morning to you, Shane.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Katie, and good morning to all your listeners.

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Speaker 1: Look, we appreciate you joining us again in the studio.

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Speaker 1: Why didn't the CLP file these donations.

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Speaker 4: Well, it was a failure to comply by a deadline.

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Speaker 4: It's totally unacceptable. I read the right act of the

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Speaker 4: people involved. You would have seen yesterday and the nteen

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Speaker 4: years that the treasurer Attorney Shalling, apologized to the membership

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Speaker 4: of the CLP for this, and I'm assured that those

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Speaker 4: filings will be made today.

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Speaker 3: I can tell you.

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Speaker 4: They amount to forty thousand dollars. There's no secret about

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Speaker 4: any of the donors.

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Speaker 2: I can actually have so forty grand in donations.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, total.

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Speaker 2: And who are those donations being received from.

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Speaker 4: I can tell you that Scott Chapman, Core Traffic Parlor, Dazzo,

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Speaker 4: and the biggest donor was me right, So.

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Speaker 2: You're back in yourself there, Shane.

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Speaker 4: In fact, I will continue to make donations to the COLP.

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Speaker 4: The reality is I'm passionate about getting the territory back

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Speaker 4: on track, and if it means I've got to put

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Speaker 4: my hand me pocket.

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Speaker 3: I intend to do just that.

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Speaker 2: How much did you donate eight hundred on the last run?

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Speaker 2: Eight hundred dollars on the last six out of forty thousand?

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Speaker 1: I mean, does the fact that these donations weren't actually

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Speaker 1: filed in the due course and the way that they

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Speaker 1: were supposed to show that the COLP, you know, I

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Speaker 1: don't have their business in order.

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Speaker 3: Well, let's make this very clear.

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Speaker 4: I'm a labor party running an ad on their Facebook

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Speaker 4: page and they're trying to implicate Lea. This has got

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Speaker 4: nothing to do with Leah, nothing to do with the

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Speaker 4: parliamentary wing.

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Speaker 3: So let's be very clear about that.

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Speaker 4: This is a function of the party that has changed

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Speaker 4: his office bearers. I came in as a new president,

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Speaker 4: Tony Shelling went from general secretary to treasurer. There's been

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Speaker 4: a glitch, unex acceptible. I've told them we can't have

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Speaker 4: this happening, and I think we're late two or three

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Speaker 4: days at most. But I can tell you that the

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Speaker 4: Northern Territory Electoral Office has been verbally briefed on who

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Speaker 4: the donations are from and how much is involved, So

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Speaker 4: we're not in the dark with the agency.

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Speaker 2: So was the party trying to be deceitful here.

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Speaker 3: No, not at all.

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Speaker 4: I mean, look, you've only got to ask around with

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Speaker 4: people who might be a bit like with a tax

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Speaker 4: return or paying a bill or whatever. This is human

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Speaker 4: failure and it's unacceptable. We have to be right on

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Speaker 4: our game with this. And everyone who was involved has

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Speaker 4: been told by me in no uncertain terms because you

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Speaker 4: embarrass me as the president of the party, because I'm

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Speaker 4: a stickler for this sort of stuff, and there's nothing

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Speaker 4: to hide. In fact, we've got the lowest donations of

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Speaker 4: any book I.

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Speaker 2: Was going to say. I mean, by the look of it,

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Speaker 2: forty around forty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: From what you've told me, you've donated yourself more than

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Speaker 1: six thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: Does that show that the.

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Speaker 1: Party doesn't have the support of of you know, big

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Speaker 1: Party seems to have based on those donations.

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Speaker 4: I think if you drill down on the labor side,

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Speaker 4: looking at the amounts involved, there's lots of five hundreds.

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Speaker 4: I think that's the Alban Easy dinner that was organized

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Speaker 4: and they had to pay so much per head, so

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Speaker 4: you know, is it a donation or is it paying

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Speaker 4: a tariff. The CLP does not, in my estimation at

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Speaker 4: the moment, have a sophisticated fundraising arm and we're in

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Speaker 4: the process of rectifying that. Now there's another part of

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Speaker 4: all this is related in did help. He gives some

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Speaker 4: legacies and they are completely compliant and they failed in time.

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Speaker 4: So you know, when we're not the only political party

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Speaker 4: that missed deadline. The food shooters and fishes they missed.

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Speaker 4: And again you're talking days, you're not talking month.

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Speaker 1: Got The difference is, though, Shane, you've been around for

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Speaker 1: a long long time. Tony's been the He's been the

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Speaker 1: treasurer for quite some time, hasn't he. Oh, he hasn't

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Speaker 1: secretary all right, So he's been part of the party

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Speaker 1: for quite some time. So you know, we would suspect

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Speaker 1: that the COLP would be organized enough to actually get

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Speaker 1: this to the Electoral COMMISSI when they're supposed to.

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Speaker 4: That's my expectation, and I've made it very clear that

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Speaker 4: I won't tolerate another failure like this. We need to

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Speaker 4: step up and get it right. And there's nothing to hide.

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Speaker 4: This is not a case of hiding donations. It's a

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Speaker 4: failure to file on time, and then you know it's

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Speaker 4: a bit rich labor party runs this Facebook ad, you know,

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Speaker 4: making these allegations. This is the lot who allegedly diverted

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Speaker 4: forty thousand dollars of taxpayers money for the last election

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Speaker 4: and are still the subject of an ICAC inquiry.

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Speaker 1: Well, look, I don't have the details around that, so

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Speaker 1: you know, I'll be very careful what I do or

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Speaker 1: don't sort of say in that space.

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Speaker 2: But I haven't seen the ad myself either.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I guess you've opened yourselves up to

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Speaker 1: this criticism.

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Speaker 3: It's unacceptable.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is unacceptable, and people want to know, like,

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Speaker 1: they want that transparency, they want that integra from a

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Speaker 1: political party. So Shane, some might be asking this morning,

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Speaker 1: is the party you know in line with your expectations

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Speaker 1: and is this going to be an issue over the

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Speaker 1: next six months.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm recently back, but I won't use that as

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Speaker 4: an excuse, and I can tell to you I'm in

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Speaker 4: there cracking the whip.

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Speaker 3: Remember this.

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Speaker 4: We are all volunteers, so including the treasurer who takes time.

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Speaker 3: Out from his business to do these things. There.

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Speaker 4: That's not an excuse, that's an observation of the facts,

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Speaker 4: but be assured that I take this very very seriously.

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Speaker 4: I take compliance very very seriously, and if all things

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Speaker 4: go to plan, we won't have a recurrence of this.

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Speaker 1: All right. And so this afternoon that information, if it

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Speaker 1: hasn't already, is going to be going to the inter

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Speaker 1: Electoral Commission.

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Speaker 3: I'm told in writing that that's what's happening, all right.

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Speaker 1: And so forty thousand dollars is the donations that the

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Speaker 1: COLP have received over the last six months, and more

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Speaker 1: than six thousand.

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Speaker 3: Six thousand and eight dollars for Shane.

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Speaker 2: We've got some messages coming through.

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Speaker 1: There's one here saying Tony Shelling's previously been the treasurer.

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Speaker 3: Well, he was general secretary when I.

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Speaker 1: Came back, Okay, But so either way, what you're saying

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Speaker 1: is that you're getting that info to the Electoral Commission today.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing more untoward from your perspective.

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Speaker 3: Look, people will take shots at Tony.

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Speaker 4: Tony has been a loyal servant of the party, done

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Speaker 4: his best, and I'm not a person who throws people

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Speaker 4: under a bus. I'm not going to go out there

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Speaker 4: and sack Tony Shelling because of this one oversight. So

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Speaker 4: he'll work hard to get it right, and I do

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Speaker 4: think in free service and dedication to the party.

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Speaker 2: Shaneestone, I am going to have to leave it there.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 3: Glad to be on Katie.

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Speaker 2: Thank you